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Ask HN: What systems allow remote code execution as a feature?

by sbensu on 8/6/18, 4:10 AM with 2 comments

I recently learned of Telescript[1], a programming language, design to allow clients to execute arbitrary code on servers.

SQL databases also have a similar architecture, with the code being executed being much more restrained but still powerful.

What other systems were designed with remote code execution as a feature?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescript_(programming_language) and I got it from this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLF7yfXFmUk

  • by noahlt on 8/6/18, 7:42 PM

    I’ve heard that early versions of the Dropbox client allowed engineers to remotely open a Python shell on users’ computers, for debugging purposes.

  • by Someone on 8/6/18, 6:26 AM

    The combination of scp/ssh.

    dtrace, if you consider the kernel to be ‘remote’.

    The Voyager spacecrafts (in general, unassisted remote firmware update is a form of remote code execution)