Hocus-pocus! The stupidity of cybersecurity predictions

Every year, some publication asks me to come up with a list of my top 10 predictions for the security field, and every year I tell them they might as well just dust off an article I wrote a year earlier, with maybe a couple of buzzwords and a new technology added on. What you can generally expect in any given year is more of the same, with some slight variations.
That doesn’t stop people from making predictions, though. Vendors and supposed experts can’t seem to control the urge, bu