Time for Internet Engineers to Fight Back Against the "Surveillance Internet" | MIT Technology Review: "dtutelman 16 hours ago
"The basic problem is that at its core, the existing ‘net is merely a bigger and fancier version of the original one that assumed everyone was honest and trustworthy (all of the early users were researchers in government and academic labs)."
Bingo!
A 100% cooperative community was indeed the mindset of the developers of ARPANET -- which was the foundation for the Internet infrastructure today. In 1974, Cerf and Kahn published their proposal for the IP protocol (still the foundation for Internet routing; upgrades have been aimed at improving capacity, not security or accountability). The year before, I was one of three reviewers for the paper for IEEE Transactions on Communications. I pointed out this problem in my review, but there was never any response."
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