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Craig Mundie Wants "Internet Driver's Licenses"

Posted by timothy on from the genuine-advantage dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Craig Mundie, Microsoft's Chief Research and Strategy Officer, called for the creation of an 'Internet Driver's License' at the World Economic Forum in Davos, saying, 'If you want to drive a car you have to have a license to say that you are capable of driving a car, the car has to pass a test to say it is fit to drive and you have to have insurance.' Of course, there are quite a few problems with this. For starters, internet use cannot yet cause death or dismemberment like car accidents can; and this would get rid of most of the good of internet anonymity while retaining all of the bad parts, especially in terms of expanding the market for stolen identities. Even though telephone networks have long been used by scammers and spammers/telemarketers, we've never needed a 'Telephone Driver's License.'"

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  1. Re:Why do you have a steering wheel in your pants? by blugu64 · · Score: 2, Informative

    In all countries you need a TV license to operate a TV Transmitter. I think what you are referring to is that some country make you have a license for a TV receiver.

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  2. Re:Slashdot is getting out of hand by PopeRatzo · · Score: 2, Informative

    First links that link to blogs that link to articles. Then links to social networks to link to links that link to articles.

    Where does the stupidity end?

    Usually at Twitter.

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  3. Re:Why do you have a steering wheel in your pants? by chris+mazuc · · Score: 4, Informative

    [1] [2]

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  4. Criag Mundie wants to control you. by Jackie_Chan_Fan · · Score: 4, Informative

    There you go.

    Fuck you Criag Mundie. Fuck you in your tiny dick hole, you elitist, ruling class, piece of shit. Shall we require government licenses to use our toasters and our televisions so that we will never burn our toast, and will be capable of understanding that not all TV, including the news is real, or good for us?

    What the fuck Criag. Die in a fire.

  5. Re:If you drunk e-mail... by russ1337 · · Score: 2, Informative

    will they take away your license?

    No, but if you copyright infringe three times they will...

  6. Re:major loss for privacy, dissent by Maudib · · Score: 2, Informative

    credit card transactions

    There are. PCI Compliance. http://www.pcicomplianceguide.org/pcifaqs.php

  7. Re:If you drunk e-mail... by chentiangemalc · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just to clairfy - this is not the position of Microsoft, this is the view of one employee at Microsoft.