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In late February, data analytics company LexisNexis Legal & Professional suffered a data breach in which the threat actor responsible used an unpatched application to access the company’s Amazon Web Services infrastructure. While LexisNexis L&P claims the data leaked was minimal, this breach still serves as an important reminder of a critical security principle:

If a company as large as LexisNexis L&P can fall victim to such a simple vulnerability, what’s to say your business won’t?

AI has moved past the buzzword phase and into the plumbing phase. It is no longer about what an AI can say; it is about what it can do. But as the industry races toward total autonomy, the gap between a productivity breakthrough and a systemic breakdown has become a razor-thin edge.

If you’ve ever looked at your phone—or your laptop, or whatever allegedly “smart” device you happened to be using—and wished that things were how they used to be, you certainly aren’t alone. You aren’t imagining things, either… this perception of the products and services we rely on getting worse over time is widespread enough to have its own term, which has expanded beyond its social media-specific origins to all technologies, regardless of whether it's hardware or software. This term was actually named to be 2023’s Word of the Year (per the American Dialect Society), beating “AI” in relevance.

That word? Enshittification, as coined by tech critic and author Cory Doctorow. Let’s explore the concept and what it inevitably leads to.