“The most merciful thing in the modern tech stack, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of top-level abstractions in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The reverse-engineers and security researchers, each straining in their own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of computation, and of our frightful dependence upon it, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”

– H.P. Lovecraft after learning about CPU vulnerabilities