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Every Day is Y2K

Every Day is Y2K

via Dev.toJonathan Blessing

Twenty-six years later, I think we should remember Y2K —a crisis named after its deadline. My first job in New York was as the BBC's Y2K coordinator for the Americas. I spent months preparing systems for a single night. Fix the code, test and re-test the systems, and hold my breath at midnight. The sun rose the next morning and Y2K was happily forgotten. Mythos-class AI does not offer a date. It offers a condition. Thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities surfaced in weeks, with no reason to believe the rate slows. The next model will find more. The one after that, more still. There will be no midnight. Mythos-class AI does not offer a date. It offers a condition. Consider: Mythos found a 27-year-old zero-day in OpenBSD —the operating system built, from the ground up, by people whose entire reputation rests on not having exploitable code. It is like discovering that if you hold water just so, it explodes. If that system had a door no one found for 27 years, what is hiding in the systems t

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