Especially now that AI is incredibly capable of security... "research"... literally any skiddie with a bit of money can "pentest" systems.

It's no longer "if" a system gets hacked but "when".

Prior to this, all the knowledge and skills and thought processes were limited to a small fraction of a percentage of the population, most of whom ended up selling out, thus limiting the potential damage.

But today? Any skiddie with a grudge can get their hands on an abliterated model, spend a bit of money on hardware to run it (if power consumption isn't a limit, a handful of 3090s will do, which you can get relatively cheap), and just run attacks against any server their fridge is against.