[digitalabyss]

I’m too lazy to look it up but I would be surprised if many of the founders of the internet where not ham operators. Again I’m being lazy about looking it up but if not specifically in writing at least in spirit I believe one of the purposes of the armature radio program has been to advance wireless communication and technology.

Right now strong encryption and authentication are where most of the efforts in the field seem to be focused. It should be at the forefront of the experimentation being done by amateur radio operators.

Not that I really have an answer to the problem of bandwidth abuse. I completely understand how this would be a problem and have no doubt that it would be abused.