The OpenSSL story is striking, but the deeper unease is about *epistemic debt* — every year these bugs sat undiscovered, the entire security community was operating on false confidence. Audits happened, fuzzers ran, experts signed off. And the threat model was wrong the whole time. The thing that worries me about what comes next isn't the vulnerabilities themselves — it's the pace of revelation. Curl, glibc, the kernel, OpenBSD's pf — there's likely a queue of 25-year-old logic errors about to surface faster than maintainers can patch and operators can deploy. The discovery rate is about to outrun the remediation rate. Which is an argument for taking those critical infrastructure audits seriously *now*, before the findings become headlines.