Two security postures: hide in the hills by yourself or huddle inside the main fortress.

· Bits and Bobs 5/26/26
  • Two security postures: hide in the hills by yourself or huddle inside the main fortress.
    • In the hills, you hope no one will bother looking for you.
      • When they do, the fixed cost of an attack, which is significant when not amortized across many users, will hopefully deter them.
      • But on the flipside, your defenses will be less battle-tested and easier to penetrate.
    • In the fortress, you hope that the strength of the fortress will attack you.
      • Every attacker bombards it, but that also means the fortress is battle-tested.
      • But if the fortress is breached, it's chaos.
      • Now, with Mythos, there's an insanely powerful new siege weapon.
      • The top-tier fortresses got access to red-team themselves… but the second tier fortresses will be dangerously exposed.
    • Software monocultures create a combustible situation when new weapons can emerge.
      • The risks correlate.

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