I think you might have forgotten how immature the field of computer security, especially for network applications, was in the 90s/00s. This was the era of regis

I think you might have forgotten how immature the field of computer security, especially for network applications, was in the 90s/00s. This was the era of register_globals in PHP, CGI scripts written in C, HTTPS being some fancy luxury for banks and OS login dialogs you could kill with task manager.