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The end of the internet is nigh!

Elaine Oct 21, 2026, 12:54 pm EDT	The end of the internet is nigh! Naw ... this is not another thread about the Orange One's diapers. A vulnerability has been discovered that affects about 70% of web sites, including this one. Lots of major ones use Cloudflare, for example. Sites are going to "read only mode" until the uber geeks can think up a fix for it. You can read about it [url=https://blog.cloudflare.com/php-vulnerabilities-waf-protection]here[/url]. It doesn't affect us much because 1) I haven't uploaded the registration page so you are all posting anonymously 2) Since there are no members in the database, there is nothing to hack, and 3) I always store your passwords as a "salted hash", so even if somebody got access to the database, they couldn't read anything Basically, we have nothing to steal. And I've always kept it that way. So that's why a lot of web sites have been either fucked up or down in the last day or so. Just FYI.
Elaine Oct 21, 2026, 1:25 pm EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! According to The Hacker News, PHP has already issued two "critical updates" that fix two critical flaws. We're saved!
Yoodo Oct 21, 2026, 2:34 pm EDT	May the farce be with you. Hooray the refuge is safe from the empire.
ColdFusion Oct 22, 2026, 8:36 am EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! The lop has a AlmaLinux Test Page up
Anonymous Coward Oct 22, 2026, 9:12 am EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! Lynyrd Skynyrd salutes you! Marco's site is down.
ColdFusion Oct 22, 2026, 9:31 am EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! He solved the web crawler problem he was working on.
Billy Bob Oct 22, 2026, 10:22 am EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! Yeah, I just noticed LOP is down. Maybe he's updating it due to the php thing.
Anonymous Coward Oct 22, 2026, 10:39 am EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! Chat brats is down too.
Elaine Oct 22, 2026, 11:29 am EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! DownDetector is reporting problems with American Express.
Elaine Oct 22, 2026, 11:30 am EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! And Greenlight.
Elaine Oct 22, 2026, 11:55 am EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! Somebody should keep an eye on the stock market and let us know how things are going today. Since a lot of stores don't take cash anymore (Walmart, for example), this situation could become entertaining. I hope the server farms have a few of us "outdated" php admins left to install the updates.
Elaine Oct 22, 2026, 12:04 pm EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! The BBC has reported that the UK government is claiming "some" limited government services "may be offline" while security work is being carried out.
Elaine Oct 22, 2026, 12:05 pm EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! The French telecoms giant "Orange" has confirmed it "suspended access" to several websites and apps as a "precautionary measure", apologizing for any impact.
Anonymous Coward Oct 22, 2026, 12:51 pm EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! Now this is funny - From BBC's Technology and AI editor. Zoe Kleinman: PHP is the cyber equivalent of an unexploded bomb Talk about melodrama.
Elaine Oct 22, 2026, 1:51 pm EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! Now my server is having issues. Sigh.
Anonymous Coward Oct 22, 2026, 4:20 pm EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! walmart is fucked up too
Elaine Oct 22, 2026, 5:01 pm EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! "walmart is fucked up too" that's just normal for walmart.
Anonymous Coward Oct 22, 2026, 5:57 pm EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! walmart is fucked up too" that's just normal for walmart. In the town I live in there isn't much choice but Walmart. It sucks.
Anonymous Coward Oct 22, 2026, 6:16 pm EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! My adult kid wanted a toy called a Fuggler for Xmas. Wally World was the only place that had them.
Elaine Oct 22, 2026, 6:34 pm EDT	RE: The end of the internet is nigh! Yahoo Finance about NASDAQ today: 26,008.86 - down 2.60% − 694.00 today "Key Drivers: A sell-off in large-cap tech and artificial intelligence (AI) stocks driven by questions over near-term returns on heavy infrastructure spending, alongside rising safe-haven demand."

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