[danielpal]

So ahead of their time:

For security, the commit command will use one-time passwords. This way, even if someone gets the ordinary password of a user, they can't modify the catalog that actually appears at the site.

Yet, it was another era....:

Secure server software ($5000). This does not seem to be an absolute necessity; there are a lot of sites on the web where you can send your credit card number unencrypted, and to date there have been no reports of the numbers being stolen.

[keiferski]

It makes me wonder what practices we consider normal today will be considered horribly insecure in the future.

[doublerabbit]

Well, username and passwords for one

[divbzero]

Perhaps trusting a large set of CAs by default when browsing with HTTPS?