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by Sesse__ 17 days ago
> The current design was implementable by zillions of cheap humans running cheap hardware.

Yes and no. The current internet arguably does not work without a browser and a TLS stack anyway, neither of which is easily implementable (e.g. number of practically usable rendering engines is in the single digits). I mean, I can piece together an IP packet, too, but there's not that many usable services reachable that way.

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A bad application can still open unencrypted connections. Imagine a shoddily written game with a chat function.