Netanel Rubin: The Perl Jam: Exploiting a 20 Year-old Vulnerability on HackerTube: recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 separate months, 2018–2023.
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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.
“try this great Perl presentation from Netanel Rubin”
3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
Bit of offtopic: Best bash of a programming language „The Perl Jam: Exploiting a 20 Year-old Vulnerability“ ▶ this video And part 2 „The Perl Jam 2 The Camel Strikes Back“ [link]
in “Experience Report: 6 months of Go” · View on HN
If you loved that video, try this great Perl presentation from Netanel Rubin: ▶ this video And it's follow-up cousin "The Camel Strikes Back" [link] (He says wat alot and it's hilarious)
in “Show HN: Wat” · View on HN
Friends dont let friends write perl. Source: The legendary "Perl Jam" talk from the chaos communication congress. * ▶ this 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.
in “Why Perl?” · View on HN