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The Decline of Human Cognition
The essay by Fela Akinse, co-founder and CEO of Trotta.io. By the time an attacker reaches a human or an AI agent, it is already too late. Eight theses on why security has to move before delivery: humans are the last unpatched system, training is a category error, and pre-delivery interception is the missing primitive. Read the essay, with every figure and its source: https://www.trotta.io/essay
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The Decline of Human CognitionThe Decline of Human Cognition
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