cyb3rops: AI Audits Reveal 40 Years of Software Was Security by Obscurity
cyb3rops · x · 2026-11-06
Security researcher cyb3rops argues that now machines can be pointed at everything built over the last 40 years, much of it was likely 'security by obscurity' all along — there simply weren't enough skilled people examining how broken it actually was. The observation aligns with the recent wave of AI-powered code auditing tools.
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