When the web exploded, it invalidated Windows 95's security model.

· Bits and Bobs 4/27/26
  • When the web exploded, it invalidated Windows 95's security model.
    • The security model had been "good enough" before the web.
    • But after the web, the only viable approach was a microkernel.
    • No level of patching atop a monolithic kernel could make it safe.
    • Perhaps we've crossed the same threshold for security architecture of networked software?
    • What will the "microkernel" of networked software look like?

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