If you think of all networked software as being one multi-device "operating system," then the status quo is terrible.
- If you think of all networked software as being one multi-device "operating system," then the status quo is terrible.
- A massive monolithic kernel, with huge amounts of ambient authority sloshing around everywhere.
- The only reason it was fine in the past is because zero-days were hard to find.
- They were underwater, and the only way to find them was scuba diving for treasure.
- But now Mythos-class models make finding zero-days trivial.
- It's like sea level dropped by 10 meters, all at once.
- Suddenly what has been "good enough" for decades is dangerously exposed.