Kaspersky CEO Wants End To Online Anonymity

Andorin writes "Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of well-known computer security company Kaspersky Labs, is calling for an end to the anonymity of the Internet, and for the creation of mandatory 'Internet passports' for anyone who wishes to browse the Web. Says Kaspersky, 'Everyone should and must have an identification, or internet passport ... the internet was designed not for public use, but for American scientists and the US military. Then it was introduced to the public, and it was wrong ... to introduce it in the same way.' He calls anonymity 'the Internet's biggest security vulnerability' and thinks any country that doesn't follow this regime should be 'cut off.' The EFF objects, and it's likely that they won't be the only ones."

Comments

Not a troll - for once

[davidwr]

First they came for the internet trolls selling people, but I was not a troll selling people. ...
Then they came for me.

Re:Your official guide to the Jigaboo presidency

[greentshirt]

You'd think that a socially challenged reject like the moron who wrote this grade-school-style piece of sh!t would at the very least get his spelling and grammar right. I mean, if you're going to write a racist essay (and attempt rather vainly at humour) one would assume that at the very least you would represent the superiority of whatever race you were touting by at least knowing basic-sh!t-all-grade-9's-know, like "hoe is a garden tool".

What's most interesting about this isn't even the lack of literacy on the part of the idiot who wrote it, it's the lack of imagination on the part of the idiot who was so captivated by it's "wit" that he just couldn't wait to share it with all his pals on Slashdot, albeit anonymously.

I'd like to think if I had such strong convictions on anything I wouldn't hide behind anonymity like a 14 year old pimple-faced little boy who gets his best friend to ask out a girl he likes because he's too much of a vagina to do it himself. Just sayin.

Re:Your official guide to the Jigaboo presidency

[MollyB]

Out of morbid curiosity, I googled the first paragraph, and got 294 hits, meaning it almost certainly was not composed by the troll who posted it. It is a copy/paste from any number of racist sites. I wish slashcode would allow minimizing any particular comment by clicking the subject line, but leave the thread below intact...

Re:identify yourself

[Migraineman]

I am Spartacus.

Re:If he doesn't like anonymity...

[Lord Bitman]

This was already attempted. It failed miserably.

Re:If he doesn't like anonymity...

[Ihmhi]

I actually feel kinda bad for this guy. Nearly every comment on his virus updates is "In Soviet Russia..." jokes.