I, Cringely . The Pulpit . Frontier Daze | PBS
Robert X. Cringely writes …
One of the great strengths of the Internet as a communication and entertainment medium has always been its lack of security, a fact that seems to pass over the heads of many “experts” today. Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf could easily have added robust security to TCP/IP, but they deliberately chose not to with the idea that innovation would be encouraged by making the Internet a wide-open space. It wasn’t that they prohibited security, but pushed it up the stack, effectively making it other people’s business. If your application required security, there was nothing keeping you from adding it, but on the other hand there were few, if any, hints about how best to do that. We were on our own and to a great extent we still are, which means there is a lot of bad stuff happening and probably always will be.
I, Cringely . The Pulpit . Frontier Daze | PBS