Iirc, various people wanted to build encryption etc into tcp/ip. But there was a this thing called the cold war going on, and thus encryption was treated as mil

Iirc, various people wanted to build encryption etc into tcp/ip. But there was a this thing called the cold war going on, and thus encryption was treated as military hardware in the eyes of export law. Though really one could probably put the ultimate blame on the von Neumann architecture winning the CPU design prize. Thus any data can potentially be a program...