Can we still avoid Protocol Security meltdown
Brian C. Monahan · 2002
Before criticising the early Internet pioneers for ignoring security issues, it should perhaps be recognised that users of these original networks were linked to officially supported participating organisations, such as Universities and the military. Thus, most users were generally known to some responsible entity or organisation – they tended to behave themselves. There were no script-kiddies and little risk of malicious insider hacking. It is only with the arrival of the broader, more open and commercial Internet that these threats have emerged in any numbers.