I don’t agree with the attached, in the same way that I acknowledge that the human body* is extremely badly designed but “fixing” it would bring other problems. So I’ll start calling this perspective — along with its “rewilding” cousin argument — the “digital eugenics” approach to network architecture & cybersecurity: telling folk after the fact how they should have designed code from the outset, often for social woes that ought to be addressed by social means.

Ciaran Martin on X: ““We have to deal with the fact that we built a broken Internet” @argvee on excellent form @CYBERUKevents

* indeed, all vertebrates