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Everything is about to “go dark”

Matthew Green · 14 Aug 2026

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  1. Our reading

    Over the next two years, major pieces of software are likely to run out of remotely-exploitable bugs.

    Their wordsThus: over the next two years, major pieces of software are likely to run out of remotely-exploitable bugs.

  2. Our reading

    As AI-driven bug hunting removes easy software vulnerabilities, law enforcement and intelligence agencies' need will grow more acute and demand for intentional backdoors will restart in earnest.

    Their wordsThe destruction of the low-hanging vulnerability fruit will make law enforcement (and intelligence) agencies' need much more acute. The demand for constructed, intentional backdoors will re-start in earnest.

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