Post #4186319

2026-07-29 06:54 UTC

So where will this leave us? I don’t have the answers. But I do know what future we should be pushing for The Infosec industry is slated to hit a market cap of $1T by 2030. Optimistic, I reckon, but for other reasons. They are banking on vulnerabilities being rampant, literally. But they also know this spike will end. You can’t say a word to convince me that a trillion dollar industry dedicated to ‘protecting’ (loosely) against threats won’t have a hand in ensuring there’s enough threats to justify their existence. Cont…

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@Ar0xa@infosec.exchange 2026-07-29 06:56

@ADHDruid@infosec.exchange it reminds me of one guy in pharma industry. He said that cures don't generate enough profit and that (some?) companies activally steered away from making actual cures.

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@ADHDruid@infosec.exchange 2026-07-29 07:00

What we should be pursuing is undoing the harms of everything being always online, subscription-based, and hosted in someone else’s shed. We should focus on the availability of compute resources, our ownership of them, and sharing the technology and means to create and control it. Enforcing stricter defaults expectations, with minimal extraneous remote resources. We’re past the SaaS threshold, the cloud is dated. Everything will still work exactly as it has. Only safer, leaner, cleaner, and without being beholden to organisations deeply entrenched in defence contracting and resource (and human) exploitation. Only then will be guarantee our collective national security, and resilient systems. Cont.

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