It might - at least for the sake of a thought exercise - be time to once again decide where you come down on the freedom versus safety debate. The CEO of Kaspersky Lab seems to feel strongly that, for the sake of security, we should do away with online privacy and give all individuals a form of online ID. Kaspersky CEO Calls For Internet Passports, Police Eugene Kaspersky told Vivian Yeo , “I’d like to change the design of the Internet by introducing regulation - Internet passports, Internet police and international agreement-about following Internet standards. And if some countries don’t agree with or don’t pay attention to the agreement, just cut them off.” This drastic move would almost certainly have an effect on the prevalence of malware and spam. After all, existing forms of identification (like IP addresses) can be useless since any random person can sit down in front of a computer for a few minutes. It would be helpful to know for certain who’s doing what. Still, more than a few heads have been turned due to the threat Kaspersky’s idea poses to privacy. Many people don’t want the police to track their movements in the physical world, and feel the same way about their online activity. Those people will be happy to know Kaspersky himself doesn’t see his concept becoming a reality. The cost and difficulty of negotiating an international agreement would probably be prohibitive in the extreme.
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Kaspersky CEO Calls For Internet Passports, Police
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