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The Volunteer Who Saved the Internet Yesterday

Original: The Man Who Saved the Internet Yesterday

Ondřej Surý, a relatively anonymous volunteer working on PHP security, is being credited with saving the internet after a crisis broke out. The Atlantic profiles how a sudden emergency in PHP, a technology that underpins much of the web, thrust the long-time open-source contributor into the spotlight, drawing attention to the fragility of critical online infrastructure and the unpaid labor that keeps it running.

Why now: A major security incident in PHP put a little-known volunteer maintainer at the center of global attention, highlighting the web's dependence on open-source volunteers.

Ondřej SurýPHPThe 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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