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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
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.
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I was referring to the very clever principle to have a dumb neutral net and place the smartness in the equipment that connects to the net. That is the principle that have stimulated innovation. Your approach would have lead to a totally different deveopment and would not have been innovation friendly.
The realized that the could not predict how the net would be used so they took that into account in the design.