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 On Feb 5, 2004, at 9:21 AM, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: > , but the fault lies in the design of the Internet > itself; specifically, TCP/IP. It's another case of 80/20 coming > back to bite us. > > The web was fielded witlessly. > > The Web (or rather the TCP/IP Internet, you appear to mean from the context) wasn't "fielded witlessly" it was designed to solve a problem that had we ever faced, the Russian malware authors would be as radioactively dead as the American male potency enhancement spammers. The commercial world jumped on it because TCP/IP works as well for very real infrastructure link failures as it does in hypothetical nuclear attacks . As always, Father Darwin had the last word, and the monoculture that this success created serves as a fertile ground for all sorts of parasites that exploit the lack of accountability/tracability/confirmation that are inconsistent with TCP/IP's core mission of simply and efficiently routing around points of failure. It may be time to change priorities and either handle routing and reliable messaging farther down in the infrastructure or add new layers in the middle of the stack so that there can be better authentication and accountability at the levels we care about. Whatever is done, it's likely that a new type of parasite will evolve to exploit it -- maybe we'll trade the hassles the spammers create for the hassles the bureaucrats create, and in 20 years curse the "witless" people who created the situation. Such is life (and I think the invevitability of parasitism is well-known in Artificial Life as well). 
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