Kaspersky CEO Wants End To Online Anonymity 537
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."
I agree! (Score:5, Funny)
It should also not be possible to anonymously put mail in mailboxes. The harm that is done through postal mail is incredible!
Yeah, I'm sarcastic here.
Internet Police Force (Score:4, Funny)
They can call it the Kaspersky Guardian Bureau.
Re:If he doesn't like anonymity... (Score:5, Funny)
You mean he's going to make his own network without blackjack and hookers?
Ps: Eugene Kaspersky murders and eats cats.
Re:If he doesn't like anonymity... (Score:3, Funny)
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Eugene-Kaspersky/26270793749?v=wall [facebook.com]
Here's his failbook page if anyone wants to harass him.
I'm posting this anonymously because I can and this is the way the internet should be.
Yes (Score:5, Funny)
Re:too late (Score:3, Funny)
and if you need any more metaphors for this, I can supply them. :)
Well, as a regular /.'er I have become accustomed to at least one or two car analogies in the comments.
How about a metaphor that doubles as an analogy? Involving cars of course! Thanks in advance for any
assistance you can provide with this.
Re:too late (Score:4, Funny)
The stallion has left a barn, found a nice trainer, entered and won a Kentucky Derby, retired to a nice farm in Iowa, and sired a son, which is now on the resource list for a humanitarian agency for kids in Ottowa.
Re:Guess who's security software I won't be buying (Score:2, Funny)
Bullshit.
The only thing you really need for free exchange of ideas is a society where that its respected, and a government that protects it rather than prosecutes it. Oh... and the courage to speak up and own your own words. Anonymity is a fallback tactic for use in oppressive societies, needed only in extreme circumstances. We managed to freely exchange ideas long before the internet gave everyone an anonymous soapbox, kids.
Re:Wrong to release to the pubic? (Score:2, Funny)
The problem is: To effectively boycott the company, you'd need some desire to otherwise buy their products.
Re:Guess who's security software I won't be buying (Score:5, Funny)
Junior J. Junior III is not actually printed on my birth certificate, just to clear up any confusion.
Official answer from Anonymous: (Score:5, Funny)
Anonymous Wants End to Online Kaspersky CEO.
Anonymous Coward writes "Anonymous, from the well-known Internets, is calling for an end to the Kaspersky CEO on the Internet, and for the creation of mandatory 'Brains and common sense' for any CEO who wishes to browse the Web. Says Anonymous, 'Every CEO should and must have a brain, or common sense ... the internet was designed not for retard Nazis, but for porn and free thought. Then it was introduced to the commerce, and it was wrong ... to introduce it in the same way.' He calls the Kaspersky CEO 'the Internet's biggest freedom vulnerability' and thinks any community that wants to limit this freedom should be 'cut off.' The PMF (Political Marionettes Foundation) objects, and it's likely that they won't be the only ones."
Re:"Papers Please" (Score:1, Funny)
I will be glad when this comes to pass as I am the one true Anonymous Coward!
To my dear Kaspersky: (Score:3, Funny)
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Then I'd like to follow up with:
Fuck off, you tool.
Re:Guess who's security software I won't be buying (Score:3, Funny)
Don't be a dolt; that's not what I said. I was rebutting the clueless assertion that free speech can't exist without anonymity. There's a reason for the term "anonymous coward": anonymity is the coward's favorite approach to free speech.
Re:"Papers Please" (Score:5, Funny)
Only thing is, they didn't need the passports after their suicide mission.
Yeah they do. You think you can get into paradise to fuck 45 virgins without documentation of some sort? Can you imagine if they just let anybody into paradise without the proper documentation? You'd have every Tom, Dick and Harry claiming that they died for Allah and eventually the place would run out of virgins. Then where would we be?
Cut Kaspersky off (Score:5, Funny)
Can we just cut Kaspersky off? Put him in a tightly sealed room where he can be safe and happy, and securely identified, free to send authenticated packets to himself.
Re:"Papers Please" (Score:3, Funny)
Sorry but 45 virgins is no longer offered. Due to supplies you will be limited to 3 virgins and then you will be on a waiting list. Virgins will be delivered as they become available. Also the typical description of virgin has changed, we have a large number of incredibly old and incredibly fat virgins that are going unissued. those will be added to the pool.
Note: no refund or exchanges.
Re:"Papers Please" (Score:2, Funny)
See?
You don't need to be anonymous to be an idiot online.
Re:"Papers Please" (Score:3, Funny)
Please, for the love of $DEITY, stop treating anonymous users as illegitimate. Most of us just want to browse in peace.
He's a witch get em!