Jevons' paradox for cybersecurity: making sense of vulnpocalypse and Black October
sebkrier · x · 2026-10-27
The article "Jevons' for Cybersecurity" frames the recent wave of security chaos—"vulnpocalypse" or "Black October," spanning PHP2Shell, Broccoli2Shell, Storm-0940, and LiteLLM V2.
Applying Jevons' paradox: as AI makes attacking and defending cheaper and more efficient, total security demand expands rather than shrinks. The piece uses this lens to interpret the October vulnerability surge and what it means for security practice in the AI era.
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