Finding zero days in network software used to be hard enough to do that the equilibrium was mostly safe.
- Finding zero days in network software used to be hard enough to do that the equilibrium was mostly safe.
- You had to scuba dive to find issues.
- These were jobs that were unnatural for humans, so they were inherently self-limiting.
- Humans are expensive!
- This meant that even though networked software has a massive surface area, it was mostly safe in practice.
- But now models like Mythos lower the sea level by multiple meters.
- Suddenly the massive surface area of networked software is an existential problem.