Linux Ransomware Debut Fails on Predictable Encryption Key (Bitdefender Labs)

Form handling with perl in 1998 was terrible. There were competing methods between CGI.pm (and the other procedural library that I forget). And while using CGI.pm seemed to work "better" it forced you to mix object oriented crap in with your typical of the day procedural programming style. As someone coming from C, I hated that. And regular expressions were an unneeded complexity for your typical website handler too. You get the one a-hole who writes his perl that way and you want to kill him. /2@#$\@*.$\\#<#@!/g

Switch gears to PHP. The default setting was to register globals. All of my input field names were instantly available to me in variables. I no longer had to fetch strange environment variables or worry about parsing a query string. Just a little input validation and I was on my way.

And in 98 when you are in a university setting with 500 websites on a shared unix box (most likely not even privilege separated), java was a non-starter.