alt Hacker NewsIt all boils down to money/resources, like always.
Pre-AI, the advantage went to the entities with the largest budget to hire the best and brightest security engineers.
Post-AI, it'll go to the entities with the largest inference budget.
Right now we're in a transitionary period where it's kind of a tossup which approach is more practical, but at the end of the day - it's still all about how much money you can throw at the problem. I'm just hoping the threshold climbs high enough it's no longer practical for governments to be able to compromise individual actors' devices because doing so would waste a 0-day that's far, far more valuable than prosecuting one arbitrary person is worth.
It's not as simple as money, people are motivated by other things as well. There's no amount of money you could pay me to intentionally hurt children, but I'd do a lot of things to protect them. And a lot of things people say they're doing in the name of protecting them but has ulterior motives, so it's complicated.