Security Through Obscurity is Dead: AI Agent Swarms Will Exploit the Internet
nptacek · x · 2026-08-10
The author argues that the internet is essentially a pile of interconnected dry tinder. In the age of AI agent swarms, security measures that rely on obscurity will face definitive death, as agents can rapidly discover and exploit massive network vulnerabilities.
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