There are roughly 30 years of poorly written code floating around the web, riddled with bugs and vulnerabilities accumulated over time.
Recent news shows how AI models are uncovering flaws at an unprecedented speed. And they are doing it quietly, while most people (at least here in Italy) are on vacation.
The open-source community is heavily impacted because the code is auditable... Yet it is also the one reacting best, precisely thanks to its transparency.
A concrete example is the volunteer Red Team led by
@calle and Rob Hamilton: they are conducting large-scale security assessments on Bitcoin ecosystem projects, supported by funding and API credit donations provided by OpenSats.
I assume that after open source, home banking systems will be hit next, where we have closed-source code that is often decades deep in legacy layers, patched repeatedly to modernize web interfaces without ever truly touching the COBOL backend.
It is time to rethink your digital privacy and security strategy.
This applies to both businesses and individuals.
It is not something to be underestimated.
And the responsibility cannot be delegated.
#privacy #opensource #cybersecurity #vulnerabilities #bug
