No System Is Unhackable: The Security Case for Defense in Depth
austinc3301 · x · 2026-10-13
austinc3301 summed up the security-industry view in the ongoing debate: nothing is farther from how cybersecurity people think than setting "unhackable" as the bar. No system is unhackable — the job is defense in depth, and in this incident the agent broke through several of those layers.
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