> In the 90s we called this feature "mobile code" and thought it might be the future of distributed computing. Today we call it a "code injection attack" and re

> In the 90s we called this feature "mobile code" and thought it might be the future of distributed computing. Today we call it a "code injection attack" and recognize how enormously dangerous it is. This sentence neatly describes one of the major ways things have changed since the 90s. Computing is now a war zone, rendering many of the elegant and beautiful distributed systems concepts discussed back then off the table. Instead we have walled gardens, closed platforms, closed systems, and closed pretty much everything. Anything open is immediately spammed and exploited to death.