Re: Presumably the fuckwits in charge ...
"that is not today, has never been, and cannot ever be made safe, UNLESS we re-design The Internet from the ground up, from scratch!"
I've said that before. Got downvoted, often.
People don't want change, even when change is good. The internet was designed with positive thoughts of cooperation in mind. It was never considered that, decades later, malcontents would intentionally try to ruin things for fun or profit.
IPv6 should have been encrypted from the very first glimmer of a concept in someone's mind. But they were more concerned with that utopian ideal of perfect interconnectivity, everywhere and all the time, to believe that people could act...poorly. The consortium still can not believe that people don't want their smart lamp IP device accessible from anywhere in the world; they cannot understand that people are getting more and more concerned about security and that the idea of a worldwide uniquely-addressable device is no longer a good idea.
20 years ago we were still naive, believing that people would want to do the "right thing". Today a lot less so - especially once we woke up to one modern another's political objectives, where "right thing" has been replaced with "It's all about ME".
Biting the hand that feeds IT
