How to secure the Internet in three easy steps

Fri Oct 25 17:27:08 UTC 2002

At 13:14 -0400 10/25/02, Sean Donelan wrote:
>Are there some down-sides? Sure.  But who really needs the end-to-end
>principle or uncontrolled innovation.

The context of the above is, of course, sarcastic.  But it reminded 
me of a quote that once appeared on mailing list that is germane to 
this.  The quote was uttered in 1824 or so, by the inventor of the 
telegraph.  The quote lamented that the funding needed to deploy an 
innovative concept was held by the folks that were the most 
threatened by innovation - i.e., they made money with out the latest 
new fangled thing so whatever the new fangled thing did, it was sure 
to be a threat to their current income stream.

Does anyone know this quote?
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