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Forgetting that security wasn't designed into it the fact that it was an honor system (email as well) was just plain naive on the part of the academics.
by gist 10y ago
Forgetting that security wasn't designed into it the fact that it was an honor system (email as well) was just plain naive on the part of the academics.
- mywittyname 10y agoOr it was a compromise that wasn't worth it. We could make cars with bullet-proof glass that would make them extremely difficult to break into, but to most people, the cost is not worth the benefit, so it's not done. Given the state of encryption technology in the 80s, it's possible that any attempts to secure the protocol would have been rendered pointless by technological advances. Or, it would be more brittle than a non-secure competitor and would have fallen out of use.