The internet is a large cluster of workarounds for design decisions made in the 1970s, a truly beautiful time. A time before anyone imagined the need for a syst

The internet is a large cluster of workarounds for design decisions made in the 1970s, a truly beautiful time. A time before anyone imagined the need for a system to authenticate who is sending mail or from what server. A time when a "network connection" was a big ass permanent wire into a deeply imperfect network. A time where someone intercepting the communications on that wire was an afterthought. A time where even when things were encrypted, DES was considered an acceptable cipher. Unfortunately today's internet has needed to be a continuum of newer stuff that still has to work with the older stuff. Such is life.