Every breach in history has the same root cause: digital security is built on secrets, and secrets can be copied. Keys leak. Passwords guess. Certificates forge. The industry's answer has been more secrets, rotated faster — a lock that ships with its own locksmith. Now AI has made it worse: the systems making decisions can't prove what they are, and the content they produce can't prove where it came from.
The tell is the spending: security budgets grow every year, and so do the breaches. When more money buys less trust, the foundation is the problem.

Inside: why secret-based security loses to anything that can copy; how identity anchored in physics — hardware that can't be cloned, randomness that can't be predicted — changes the game; why verifiable AI becomes a market of its own; and who is positioned to own trust in the light era.

This isn't a cybersecurity checklist. It's an industry map for security's move from secrets to physics — written for builders who want to see it before their industry does.

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