php2shell feared to supercharge exploits via open models — reality says otherwise
xeophon · x · 2026-10-24
Security researcher xeophon highlights a "massive narrative violation": despite php2shell getting lots of attention and open models supposedly wrecking society, exploit speed hasn't exploded as feared.
- LiveOverflow counters that with one base exploit, other versions are "just a single prompt away," and compared to past memory-corruption vulns, this pace is actually fast
- A reality check on claims that open AI models dramatically accelerate vulnerability discovery
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