"We engineers built the internet" says Schneier, but here is the elephant in the corner of the room: we built it badly. Why? Because it was easy! Take email for example. Everyone knows there is an email protocol with security designed in (X.400). But it was too much effort and we were lazy and SMTP was easy. There are operating systems with security designed in (e.g. VMS). But Unix was easy and hey we can always bolt on err the wheel group afterwards.

The Internet was betrayed alright, but long before this.