Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Military Contracts

Re:Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Mi... by SolarNet on Friday June 22, 2018 @10:43AM (#17374300)

> because of defense contractors working on a military project (ARPANET).

Ehh, kinda, but not really. Less military contractors and more research grants given to academics. The difference is subtle, but an academic institution is a public institution focused on advancing science and teaching it to the public. A corporation or contractor is in it for the profit. Notably, the academics involved were able to publish their work as the TCP/IP standard (and others), and anyone was able to use it.

If it had actually been military contractors we would not have the internet as it is today.

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Re:Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Mi... by rayiner on Friday June 22, 2018 @01:37PM (#17375810)

Cerf (Stanford) and Kahn (DARPA) designed TCP. But BBN (now a subsidiary of Raytheon) built ARPANET.

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Re:Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Mi... by SolarNet on Sunday June 24, 2018 @05:51AM (#17385819)

> Kahn (DARPA)

Like... while getting his Ph.D so I'm not wrong about the academic link. Though sure, it was literally built by the military industrial complex, but the original implication that the military somehow has a primacy over an idea that was going to take off one way or another is still absurd.

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