Let’s be honest: remote attackers could run remote code on your computer running mosaic a lot easier than today with modern chrome. RCE in mosaic or Netscape w

Let’s be honest: remote attackers could run remote code on your computer running mosaic a lot easier than today with modern chrome. RCE in mosaic or Netscape was probably trivial, it just wasn’t as well studied as today. Just look at how many times those browsers would crash in the normal course of web browsing, even back then. Nobody was intensely fuzzing their html parsing engines, image processing libraries, scripting elements, plugins etc. Heck, IE used to load and run arbitrary code as “activex” controls. No fancy exploit needed!