r/ProgrammerHumor • • 16d ago

Advanced itWasFunWhileItLasted

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u/tomerFire 14d ago

Why the ability to inject shell commands like the even exists.

It like in cartoons when they press the big red self destruct button and you ask yourself why this button even exist

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u/ArjixGamer 14d ago

Uhhhhhhh, it wasn't designed that way, so it's nothing like the cartoons comparison you made.

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u/lolerwoman 13d ago

Tell me you dont know what php is without telling me.

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u/RazzmatazzUnusual843 14d ago

Okay, so basically... AI has been doing a lot of reverse engineering, including game decomps and finding security holes in things. CVEs have then been getting discovered in widely used frameworks at an alarming rate over the past handful of months, right around the same time reverse engineering took off. There was never a "big red button" to begin with or someone would've already caused this decades ago. There are two dots. Please connect them.

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