It’s February 2026. The cybersecurity unemployment rate is 0%. The pressure to hire is crushing. And the tools to fake competence are cheaper than ever.

In this episode of Hidden Layers, we investigate why the AI revolution didn't solve the talent shortage, it weaponized it.

We dissect three collapsing pillars of the modern security org:

• The Fake Candidate: How deepfake rings and LLMs are infiltrating hiring pipelines to place sleeper agents inside your Slack channels.

• The Hollow Team: The "DeepSeek Effect" that killed the Junior Analyst role and left us with a generation of engineers who can't debug the machine.

• The Ghost Ship: The rise of orphaned AI infrastructure that keeps optimizing your cloud long after its owner has quit.

Identity is the new perimeter. If you cannot cryptographically prove a candidate is human, your firewall is useless.

Verify your humans. Watch your logs. Don't let the bots bite.

A Bluepinksecurity Original.

Cyber talents send CVs, pass interviews… and then hit pure radio silence. In this episode, Hidden Layer looks at recruitment as a black box: a pipeline with almost no logging, where layout, photo, structure and text density often decide who gets filtered out long before real skills are evaluated.

Speaking as a spokesperson for Baka’s experience in cyber and AI, the episode breaks down how this presentation bias quietly weakens resilience for teams and CISOs. It then introduces the architecture behind an upcoming anti-bias CV scanner, a logging layer that measures how exposed a CV is to system bias, without inferring any protected attributes.

For cyber experts, recruiters and security leaders who want signal, not noise, about what their talent pipeline is really doing.

"So, where are you from?"It sounds like a polite question. In reality, it is a filter.When a recruiter asks "No, where are you really from?", they are processing the wrong data. They are focusing on your history, not your capability.

In this inaugural briefing of Hidden Layers, On behalft of Baka Diop (The Architect), I declassifie the "Origin Glitch" a systemic bias that costs the tech industry billions in lost talent.

Inside this briefing:

• The Glitch: Why the human brain obsesses over accents and origins instead of code.

• The Data: How "whitening" a resume increases callbacks by 50% (University of Chicago Study).

• The Waste: Why excluding neurodivergent talent kills 140% of potential productivity.

• The Fix: How the BluePink Neural Grid encrypts identity to force a focus on pure skill.

Code has no nationality. It's time to stop hiring resumes and start deploying Ciphers.

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