XBOW's Brendan Dolan-Gavitt: LLMs killed security through obscurity
moyix · x · 2026-09-19
- Brendan Dolan-Gavitt (@moyix), co-founder of XBOW, released a talk titled "Security through obscurity is dead, and LLMs killed it."
- His thesis: relying on hiding implementation details or obfuscated code no longer provides real security, since LLMs can analyze code, protocols, and systems at massive scale.
- Security researcher Dino Dai Zovi publicly endorsed the argument in a retweet, signaling notable industry traction for the idea.
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