Comment by red-iron-pine

> The Plan 9 way just seems very clean although you now have to secure the server more strongly because you are exporting filesystems from it and others are mounting it.

aye. this was my first thought too. I seem to recall older Windows doing something like the same thing -- e.g. internet controls tied to the same system as the files -- and that's how we got the 90s-2000s malware 'asplosion.