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Security boss calls for end to net anonymity

Posted on October 16, 2009July 3, 2025 by Dissent

Dan Goodin reports:

The CEO of Russia’s No. 1 anti-virus package has said that the internet’s biggest security vulnerability is anonymity, calling for mandatory internet passports that would work much like driver licenses do in the offline world.

The comments by Eugene Kaspersky, who is also the founder of Kaspersky Lab, came during an interview this week with Vivian Yeo of ZDNet Asia. In it, he proposed the formation of an internet police body that would require users everywhere to be uniquely identified.

Read more in The Register.

Photo credit: Anonymous } We are legion by Sweet Peas Photography, Flickr, Used under Creative Commons License

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