Kaspersky says Internet anonymity should end

The Internet is a "country" where criminality can no longer be kept under control by national police forces, so the network should have its own government, and the users should "enter" the Internet only after producing some sort of "ID", says Eugene Kaspersky, one of the leading international experts in security technology and founder of the world's fourth largest producer of antivirus software. "Water, electricity, gas networks are all secure networks because one knows who every entity in the system is. Passports and driving licences cannot eliminate criminality completely, but they are helpful in stopping and identifying a certain person, with criminality being kept in check. The same should be done on the Internet. We have to put an end to Internet anonymity," said Kaspersky, 45, at the "WWW: World Wild West? " seminar, organised by ZF and Kaspersky Labs. He founded Kaspersky Labs in 1997, a company with turnover put at 480 million dollars this year.