Ex-L0pht era warnings: are agent swarms taking down the internet really doomerism?
chrisrohlf · x · 2026-09-14
Security researcher chrisrohlf pushes back on dismissing 'agent swarms could take down the internet' as doomerism, citing the 1990s hacker collective L0pht — whose members famously told Congress in 1998 they could bring down the internet in 30 minutes — as precedent that such warnings deserve scrutiny.
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