It was created by people who were used to the Internet being an ultra high trust relatively close knit community of universities, research, government, and indu

It was created by people who were used to the Internet being an ultra high trust relatively close knit community of universities, research, government, and industry. Upgrades across the net had happened before just fine. This one should be no problem. This was around 1996, which is when the vertical growth phase took off. Too late.