Dense in Depth: Rethinking Security When Vulns Are Everywhere

The article argues that software vulnerabilities are effectively "dense": despite years of finding and patching bugs, AI-enabled scanning (illustrated by a dramatic increase in Chrome vulnerability fixes) shows the rate of discoverable vulnerabilities remains high. Using removal-capture reasoning and examples such as an XBOW exploit chain and attackers exploiting publicly visible fixes, the author recommends moving from per-bug patching to building mechanisms that eliminate whole classes of bugs, prioritizing remediation of actively exploited vulnerabilities, and strengthening detection and breach-resilience.