Will AI expose the rickety infrastructure of the internet?
The moment you realize the internet is "held together by glue and dreams."
A recent revelation has highlighted the fragility of the internet's infrastructure due to vulnerabilities in the open-source programming language PHP. Website owners were forced to patch their sites immediately or temporarily shut them down to prevent potential exploitation. On the TechCrunch Equity podcast, industry experts discussed the implications of this discovery and the potential for more incidents in the future.
They noted that AI tools have made it easier to uncover such issues, potentially leading to a "doom loop" where websites are shut down, links break, and information becomes inaccessible.
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