Topic: What Does Giving Your "Consent" Really Mean?

[Skhilled (OP)]

Beware, this article is a bit long-winded but worth a read.

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/what-does-giving-your-consent-really-mean/

[Ken]

Security experts have been screaming from the rooftops about this kind of issue way back when we first started using the internet, but we just don't listen. I myself am one of the worse offenders because my first 'A' school in the USN dealt with just these sorts of problems. A lot of folks who are younger than me just do not have a clue.

[Ken]

The History website has a good article on the internet as it came into being.
The Birth of the ARPAnet

On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the world’s first manmade satellite into orbit. The satellite, known as Sputnik, did not do much: It relayed blips and bleeps from its radio transmitters as it circled the Earth. Still, to many Americans, the beach-ball-sized Sputnik was proof of something alarming: While the brightest scientists and engineers in the United States had been designing bigger cars and better television sets, it seemed, the Soviets had been focusing on less frivolous things—and they were going to win the Cold War because of it.

Scientists and military experts were especially concerned about what might happen in the event of a Soviet attack on the nation’s telephone system. Just one missile, they feared, could destroy the whole network of lines and wires that made efficient long-distance communication possible.

In 1962, a scientist from M.I.T. and ARPA named J.C.R. Licklider proposed a solution to this problem: a “galactic network” of computers that could talk to one another. Such a network would enable government leaders to communicate even if the Soviets destroyed the telephone system.

In 1965, another M.I.T. scientist developed a way of sending information from one computer to another that he called “packet switching.” Packet switching breaks data down into blocks, or packets, before sending it to its destination. That way, each packet can take its own route from place to place. Without packet switching, the government’s computer network—now known as the ARPAnet—would have been just as vulnerable to enemy attacks as the phone system.
“LOGIN”

On October 29, 1969, ARPAnet delivered its first message: a “node-to-node” communication from one computer to another. (The first computer was located in a research lab at UCLA and the second was at Stanford; each one was the size of a small house.) The message—“LOGIN”—was short and simple, but it crashed the fledgling ARPA network anyway: The Stanford computer only received the note’s first two letters.

[Skhilled (OP)]

I've pretty much read the same thing on wikipedia a lot of years ago.