Imagine if everything ran a Plan9-like OS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system) T

Imagine if everything ran a Plan9-like OS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system) That gets you: 1. Communications between devices are encrypted by the OS. 2. Access to the devices are handled with simple file-permissions. 3. Feature-providing utilities can be run either locally (i.e. on the device's CPU) or remotely (on some hub-CPU.)