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Originally Posted by tompe
In what way? A lot of very clever thought went into the fundamental principles and the problems we see now with companies trying to destroy the net neutrality for example is a result of not respecting the fundamental principles.
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Yes, a lot of thought went into the principles of effective communication between users. However, on the subject of security or protection against hackers, for instance, or viruses, the prevailing attitude of the original web designers was, "Ah, no one would want to use the web to hurt another user, so who needs protection?"
As we've all seen, that attitude turned out to be a bit naive, though understandably, as the original designers had no idea the web would be utilized as it has been. But if they had built-in even modest security protocols, many of the problems we deal with today, related to viruses, hackers, botnets, etc, could have been easily avoided. And, I think, much of the problems related to intellectual property and copyright issues would also be less of an issue than they are today.