So all local universities have now essentially shut down their web-services for students. This is ... kind of curious because now you can not download recent updates (e. g. new .pdf files published) from that software.

We need a long-term solution with regards to PHP. PHP is a success story - so much web-software depends on it. But it also has become a liability when they are all now scared that the server can be easily taken over. This is not acceptable, PHP.