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...
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