ISC has been fortunate to have @ondrej as our Director of DNS Engineering since 2017. But independently of his day job, he is an important maintainer of PHP packages for Debian and Ubuntu.
This has become even more significant over the last few days as the PHP RCE vulnerabilities have been disclosed.
We are so proud of Ondřej, and grateful for him and all the other unsung heroes of the global Internet who work for the common good.
Read more at the Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/10/man-who-saved-internet-php-vulnerability/689123/
The Atlantic‘If Anything Happens to This Guy … Everyone Is Screwed’Ondřej Surý was a relatively anonymous volunteer working on PHP security. Then the internet exploded.