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e dierence lies in the measurement of failure. If robots in car
assembly screw up, people end up in the hospital or die. For a year or
two at the start of the 2000s, Hackers tried to tell the world that full
automation in vulnerability management was a bad idea, but who was
listening? at was so long ago that anyone who was listening to the
Hackers will have forgotten their message. Now we are in a position
where we see almost daily headlines in nontech publications telling us
about corporate espionage, malware, APT, privacy violations, identity
theft, and so on.
e robots in security are not yet smart enough, and perhaps never
will be.
is same Luddite story has been repeated under dierent guises