AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt

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A recently discovered PHP2Shell vulnerability, which affected major websites like NASA and Wikipedia, highlights how AI is exposing decades of technical debt in legacy software. While this particular bug was patched before exploitation, it serves as a warning that AI tools can now more easily find and exploit complex vulnerabilities in older code that were previously too difficult for humans to analyze. This necessitates a greater focus on patching and security for long-standing software.