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by soult 4769 days ago
So a gaping security hole that compromises all data is less important than using a deprecated interface?
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For an application with no exposure, arguably it is.

When you upgrade to PHP 5.6 and your application grinds to a halt because mysql_query isn't available, you'll be wishing you'd fixed it sooner.

If you're on RHEL/CentOS, 2023 is gonna be a bad year.

(RHEL/CentOS is currently on PHP 5.3 and will stay there for a long time.)

He said it was the least of their problems, not that it was the least important.
I'm sorry, isn't that the same thing?