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The volunteer who saved the internet from a PHP crisis

Original: The Man Who Saved the Internet Yesterday

Ondřej Surý, a relatively anonymous volunteer maintaining PHP security packages for Debian, became the focus of attention after a last-minute fix prevented a widespread internet outage. The Atlantic profiled him, crediting his long-unheralded work with stopping what could have been a major disruption across servers worldwide. Commenters are celebrating the quiet importance of volunteer open-source maintainers who keep critical infrastructure running.

Why now: A near-miss internet-breaking bug in PHP packaging was narrowly averted, shining a light on an otherwise unknown volunteer maintainer.

Ondřej SurýPHPDebianThe Atlantic

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• The Man Who Saved the Internet Yesterday · The Atlantic

  Ondřej Surý was a relatively anonymous volunteer working on PHP security. Then the internet exploded.

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