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points by gewetensleegte 3 days ago | 0 comments

It wasn't "slightly" more dramatic:

https://calif.io/php2shell/#patch-the-planet

I mean what is the world coming to when security researchers cannot release a writeup that is designed to look like slop, and starts with a bunch of cartoons with lame cyberpunk and matrix references, without being ridiculed for taking the piss ...

[–] rcxdude 3 days ago

Not long ago the opposite would be true and hackers would be ridiculed by their community for being too sterile and corporate, and everyone else would be ridiculed for over-indexing on playful presentation as opposed to the meat of the technical issue.