Post #4185675
2026-07-29 06:36 UTC
We are not witnessing a new age of AI being able to hack anything. We are witnessing a new age of tech companies being able to disregard labour laws and human rights, because it extracted *some* of the skills and knowledge of experienced professionals before laying them off.
At a basic level, they are exchanging healthy, socially enriching, tax-paying people, for dirty, deregulated, inefficient, and polluting energy and rare earth resource exploitation—which is handily tax deductible or subsidised.
There’s probably more to dwell on here, but I’m not an expert.
AI security testing isn’t performing anything humans couldn’t do. It’s just performing the analysis faster because laws seemingly don’t apply.
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@ADHDruid@infosec.exchange 2026-07-29 06:40
All of these vulnerabilities would eventually be found. But, I’m going to say something controversial here… I think it’s a good thing they’ve found them. First, it’s made people sit up and listen. There is political capital to cash in here if you’re a defender. But second, they’ve shown their hand and the jig is up. I can’t say how long this transition period will be, but we will very quickly hit the realms of diminishing returns. Think of this phase as all of the ‘quick wins’ being won in one go. We can proceed to concentrate on things that matter. Cont…