It all depends on your perspective. Is the military–industrial complex a scam? Maybe, but loads of useful technology has come out of it. Internet is one of thos

It all depends on your perspective. Is the military–industrial complex a scam? Maybe, but loads of useful technology has come out of it. Internet is one of those technologies. Keep in mind that between 1969 and, say, ~1990, there were very few people on the Internet. Many of them were academics who had access to Internet via their university. Internet access wasn’t a mainstream thing. So trust was probably quite high between them. And very little commerce took place on the Internet. In the 80’s, Internet was not free from criminal activity, but it was not really that much compared to how cyber criminals operate today. Some pointers to further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93industrial_complex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93industrial_co... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book)