you and I obviously inhabit different planets.  please don't tell me any
more about the one you live on.

Keith

Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:
> Well you say that you can't do this and that without knowing what you are 
> doing.
>
> A counterexample is the fact that the basic architecture of the most widely 
> used security protocol we have in use today were set by people who did not 
> know what they were doing. They had the good sense to later hire people who 
> did but they had already made the critical choices at that point.
>
> Sure we beat them up for getting the security design wrong (he's talking 
> about an integrity attack, Marc), but they did make a design choice that none 
> of the rest of us who knew better would have done that has in hindsight 
> turned out to be completely right.
>
> A similar set of issues surrounded the Web. The critical invention was 404 
> Not Found. Scruffy links were the wrong way to do it in 1992 but today we 
> understand that only scruffy can work.
>   

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