Note, the American postal service got it's reputation for reliability among the citizenry (which has been soiled by hostile management and politics in recent years) in part because the U.S. government was willing to back it with men with guns. The Marines were tasked seeing that mail was delivered, or dying in the process. This was incredibly effective at the time to the point that even today, no one even considers attacking the post a realistic option despite the withdrawal of armed forces from active involvement.
The Internet has a two-fold issue.
A) It's fundamental ideation was an interconnected network of trusted nodes, with a self-healing capability to facilitate C&C continuity in case of nuclear attack. All protocols have underneath them that starting assumption.
There is an entirely unexplored depth of "authorization/security first" computer networking practice out there waiting to be enumerated, instead of trying to bolt-on security mechanisms to what is already built without an ideation of distrust built in from the get-go.
It's just so wildly impractical to implement, and undesirable to at least the Western philosophical foundation to free by default expression that it's not a natural thing to wrap one's head around.
B ) What are you gonna do to me? I'm behind 7000 proxies in different jurisdictions that work fundamentally different from yours and are unlikely to cooperate with your projection of power!
In short, it's a people problem, not a technical one. To the degree it is a technical one, the middle-boxes hold everything back <shakes fist>.
The Internet has a two-fold issue.
A) It's fundamental ideation was an interconnected network of trusted nodes, with a self-healing capability to facilitate C&C continuity in case of nuclear attack. All protocols have underneath them that starting assumption.
There is an entirely unexplored depth of "authorization/security first" computer networking practice out there waiting to be enumerated, instead of trying to bolt-on security mechanisms to what is already built without an ideation of distrust built in from the get-go.
It's just so wildly impractical to implement, and undesirable to at least the Western philosophical foundation to free by default expression that it's not a natural thing to wrap one's head around.
B ) What are you gonna do to me? I'm behind 7000 proxies in different jurisdictions that work fundamentally different from yours and are unlikely to cooperate with your projection of power!
In short, it's a people problem, not a technical one. To the degree it is a technical one, the middle-boxes hold everything back <shakes fist>.