Netanel Rubin: The Perl Jam: Exploiting a 20 Year-old Vulnerability

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Netanel Rubin's 31C3 talk chains Perl's syntax quirks into a powerful remote code execution attack, taking down popular Perl-based projects.

Recommended as a funny, engaging look at how Perl's quirks create real security vulnerabilities.

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@lathiat2018 · in “Show HN: Wat”

If you loved that video, try this great Perl presentation from Netanel Rubin: [VIDEO] And it's follow-up cousin "The Camel Strikes Back" [LINK] (He says wat alot and it's hilarious)

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@BonoboIO2022 · in “Experience Report: 6 months of Go”

Bit of offtopic: Best bash of a programming language „The Perl Jam: Exploiting a 20 Year-old Vulnerability“ [VIDEO] And part 2 „The Perl Jam 2 The Camel Strikes Back“ [LINK]

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@Kostarrr2023 · in “Why Perl?”

Friends dont let friends write perl. Source: The legendary "Perl Jam" talk from the chaos communication congress. * [VIDEO] * [LINK] Also I find the "ubiquity" argument very side loped. What I could agree with is "small/self-contained install" (e.g. small single executable available for many platforms). But not sure how well perl fares there.

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