The networked software security model is a sprawling surface area.

· Bits and Bobs 6/29/26
  • The networked software security model is a sprawling surface area.
    • It seems reasonable if you consider it as individual services all communicating over the network.
    • But instead, view all of it as one massive networked supercomputer.
    • It's like a sprawling monolithic kernel with ambient authority sloshing around.
    • This dangerous tangle used to be hidden underwater.
    • The only way to discover problems was to scuba-dive to find zero days.
      • Expensive and time consuming.
      • Only very powerful actors thinking on decades-long time scales would bother.
    • But now Mythos-class models have dropped sea level by dozens of meters.
    • Now that sprawling architecture looks like an obvious liability.
    • What will the trusted microkernel for networked software in the age of AI look like?

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