[ale] Linux Ransom-ware

[James Sumners]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>
wrote:

> > Indeed. This is why systems need to be continually patched; not just
> every
> > quarter or some other ridiculousness. Especially if you're exposing
> > yourself via systems that are known to be poorly "designed" like PHP.
>
> Eh, you can do dumb things with any language, it's not directly PHP's
> fault, it's the fault of the plugin writer that failed to take safety
> into account.  If the plugin were written in something else it would
> still have an issue.


That's what the word "like" implies -- an example.


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