The Kessler Syndrome (where blowups multiply exponentially) applied to software

Inspired by the spate of supply attacks (like Mini Shai-Hulud-style worms, which culminated in headlines like Microsoft's Azure tools themselves being compromised), earlier this year I wrote on my blog (which is down now because of all the RCEs out today) about the Kessler Syndrome, applied to software. The rising likelihood that, because of how bad actors with agentic AI can do far more damage, more quickly with the secrets they exfiltrate from penetrated networks, we could get into a situation where essentially everything of medium or greater complexity would become permanently "tainted" (never fully clean).Basically, can swarms of agents 1) penetrate networks and exfiltrate secrets and 2) successfully install rootkits, faster than hugops teams can rotate secrets and restore servers cleanly? For basically the entire existence of networked computers, this would have seemed a fantastical notion. But, throw in the current AI-fueled exploit discoveries and the countless servers vulnerable to RCEs, across several stacks: I feel like the probability just keeps rising.Here are excerpts from my blog post, June 10:"The Kessler Syndrome is a scenario where the density of objects and space…