And I suspect it's no coincidence that we have been saddled with a vulnerable computer architecture from the inception of the PC and Windows. By 1970 MIT and Honeywell had figured out how to create an impenetrable combination of computer hardware and OS, called Multics, but the powers-that-be knew that would be a problem for them. Hence we got Unix (favored by DARPA and its funded universities) and Windows (favored by industry). Apple has done a better job, both with MacOS and iOS, but still not up to the Multics standard.
Cyber insecurity was on purpose.
Goodness, I love Free Republic!
I have never heard of Multics. Off to another adventure of inquiry.
Thanks, AZLiberty.
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And Windows 10 is WMD
> “Cyber insecurity was on purpose.”
Well, sorta ...
The ARPANET was an experiment for intra comms, not purposed as a spy tool although spooks came to recognize its potential utility to the spy world after the fact. It was originally a “plaything” for messaging but later it was thrown away, discarded.
The intra comm experiment was reviewed by security-minded missions who concluded it was full of holes and could never be made secure. So it was thrown out to universities or anyone inclined, thrown away because it was useless, it was looked at as a security failure. It wasn’t thrown away with any intention other than universities could play with it for whatever purpose they deemed fit. DARPA went on to create secure messaging and mapping capabilities and abandoned anything that ARPANET had advanced. There was no public usage of ARPANET at the time, so no spying capability to develop.
And computers at the time filled buildings and cost in terms of today’s dollars about $100,000 per month to maintain. Private businesses, for the most part, shunned such expensive playthings So universities took it in-house and played with it. There were exceptions such as IBM, EDP, and others.
What is the CIA? It’s central bank enforcement programs. The CIA is made of money created from nothing (central banking), dark money, to be spent on whatever it deems necessary.
With the development of IC’s and the miniaturization of processors, made possible by our NASA Space Program, the advent of microcomputing came to universities and eventually to game makers like Atari and Commodore. Microsoft was started without CIA mandate but Apple, on the other hand, was a startup funded by CIA backed venture capitalists. Many of the 20th Century Venture Capitalists were high-ranking former military backed by CIA funds. They were once quite patriotic until the Clinton-Obama eras turned patriotism on its head and stepped into a global mission of world dominion using cool, young, hipsters to act as its surrogates. But note that Steve Jobs was fired from the company he founded using that CIA laced venture capital and ‘corporate veteran’ Sculley from Pepsi was brought in to give Apple that ‘mature’ management presence desired and expected by multinational corporations. But styles and fashions demanded the Steve Jobs type of executive, not the fuddy-duddy suit-wearing golf-swinging gray-haired executives of yesteryear. Thus, the swing to ‘progressive’ hipness went into motion and the old patriot venture funders went into retirement.
However, Netscape was borne (funded) by CIA affiliates/contractors, notably Larry Ellison of Oracle who was a CIA contractor for relational databases.
Gates of Microsoft had completely missed the internet application of microcomputing and knew his company would go the way of Novell if Microsoft didn’t get into the internet space in a big way. The woman at Microsoft who managed the creation of Internet Explorer became a billionaire as a result (stock options) and Microsoft took over the internet space leaving Netscape to die on the vine. Ellison was furious and brought political power to bear down on Microsoft as a monopoly with Deep State attorney Lawrence Tribe of Harvard to lead the effort to bust up Microsoft into a thousand pieces.
Microsoft survived but only because Gates agreed to become a good little liberal, donating and supporting progressive causes like globalism, like China’s (PRC) system of government which he started to praise.
The CIA through threat assessment saw that computing and internet represented a huge intel asset that they needed to control before the intel apparatus of other opponents figured out how to take it over. It’s not surprising that under the years of Obama the PRC Chinese developed nearly undetectable chips the size of a pinhead that were inserted in nearly everything including cars and plane computers, even Air Force 1!
Intel, Inc., Motorola, TI, and others were the chipmakers that the CIA used for controlling the processing space and its access to and from the internet.
The evolution was therefore borne of a confluence of factors all leading to an ongoing threat assessment that the CIA was naturally directed to oversee.
"Multics was a prototype of a Computer Utility, providing secure computing to remote users at their terminals. Multicians still miss the elegant, consistent, and powerful programming environment; some Multics features are only now being added to contemporary systems."
***shame our government was overrun with the DS. Wouldn't need the cloud. BTW, is everyone here on board with the government using the cloud?
RISC is such a collosal joke. Reduced instruction set my ass. With VAX MACRO-32 I could do polynomial equations with ONE instruction.
But that’s bad! It’s horrible! Oh the humanity!