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THE END OF OPEN SOURCE

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Summary from the TLDR newsletter

Intelligence services were never limited by what they could steal, but what they could read. Reading was the expensive part, so collection had to be selective. Every company that told itself it was too boring to be a target was relying on a foreign analyst's workload. AI removes this constraint. Closed source only removes your ability to see your exposure - it doesn't remove it.