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Security was considered just as important as it is today, in fact probably more because the default attitude towards the internet was not to trust anything. At
by stcroixx 4y ago
Security was considered just as important as it is today, in fact probably more because the default attitude towards the internet was not to trust anything. At this time the only relevant browser was IE, which was hostile to everything not MS and they would kneecap anything they could.
- kaba0 4y agoCome on, there was basically no concern for privacy for a very long time. The whole IT were built upon “no bad actors” assumption. It turned out to be a deeply flawed assumption and we try to fix it, but desktop OSs are still insanely unsafe.
- zozbot234 4y agoThere was enough concern for privacy that browsers were set up to warn for each and every cookie by default, and prompt the user before running any JavaScript on the page.