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by c-linkage 332 days ago
Most people don't want actual security. They want "good enough" security which provides the illusion of security. Because even when "good enough" security fails there are no consequences so "good enough" security is all we will ever get.

Data breaches are now as common as air disasters and school shootings, so no one except the victims cares anymore. And there aren't enough victims to matter in the financial sense.

It's always about risk, and business and the consumer have made a devil's bargain that the consumer will now take on more risk. LLMs will continue to be developed and used and MCP will worm its way into more and more things because software is accepted to be insecure by default and we all just live with it.