On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 12:46:44PM -0500, Jeffrey Race wrote:

I said that the mechanism by which the internet operates was slackly designed and is slackly operated so has become a cesspool of criminality.

Yes. In the same way that roads have been designed without police checkpoints every few 100 metres, so they have become the favoured means of transportation for criminals. In the same way that cities have not been designed as prisons, so they have become "cesspools of criminality". In the same way that phone networks have been designed without positive vetting of all users and (until recently) without the means to record any and all conversations, so they are/were used daily by criminals. Had the internet been designed like a corporate LAN with strict access controls, it would not exist today. rgds, Sascha Luck