Re: Q: type ... is new String

[Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>]

On Wednesday, June 6, 2012 5:01:44 PM UTC-7, Randy Brukardt wrote:
> "Georg Bauhaus"  wrote in message 
> news:4fcd283e$0$9502$9b4e6d93 at newsspool1.arcor-online.net...
> > On 04.06.12 22:33, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) wrote:
> >> Le Mon, 04 Jun 2012 17:14:49 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov 
> >> a écrit:
> >>> Miserable state of internet standards
> >>
> >> JavaScript is not representative of Internet standards ;-) . There are 
> >> not all so miserable as JavaScript is.
> >
> > The internet is largely operated without following standards.
> 
> Which is why the Internet is a warren of attacks and vulrabilities.

Well, that's one reason.  But it's not the only reason.  Some of the standards themselves weren't appropriate for an Internet accessible to the general public.  In particular, SMTP was designed for a research community where people could mostly trust each other, and then it was used without modification when "the Internet" came into being, making it easy for criminals to send unverifiable e-mail with spam and viruses and not get tracked down.  At least that's how I see it.  If it could be done over again, I'd hope the gurus would replace SMTP with something more secure before the whole system was unleashed on the public.  I think that's the biggest single thing that should have been done.

But... sigh... hindsight is 20/20.  So maybe we should hope that by 2020 we can start doing all the things that should have been done earlier...  <grin>

                        -- Adam