Security veteran: AI is radicalizing exploit development like the worm era of 2000
joshua_saxe · x · 2026-09-29
Dino Dai Zovi compares today to the 1990s, when remote exploits were plentiful, until Internet worms automated them at scale around 2000. He argues AI is now radically democratizing vulnerability discovery, exploit development, and operational use — and urges people to skip p(doom) debates and work on realistic near-term security problems. Retweeted by Joshua Saxe.
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