Who's Who on the Web? -- WHO KNOWS !?!
On the Web, nobody knows you're a dog
These days, the Web is basically a Free-For-All
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- Client identity is usually unknown
- Server identity is not proven
- Authorship and Document Integrity is not verifiable
and thus,
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- Client anonymity is easy
- Access control is not easy
- Document forgery and server impersonation is not hard
And of course, eavesdropping is easy
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So most all documents are "public"