flynn23 wrote:
I agree that it was probably a PR stunt, but I think he is also suggesting to go full monty, so that the botnet node wouldn't have gotten compromised in the first place without an audit trail of who sent it packets in the first place. You know this is coming.

I'm not following how this will solve the problem. Today we usually know where the evil traffic is coming from. Thats not the problem. If you think you can run a global network with 6 billion users in 180 odd countries with different levels of infrastructural sophistication using broken, vulnerable software and track down people who are responsible for every packet that gets transmitted, you've never run a real network before. We can't even do this inside enterprise networks that already have strict identity based access control and forensic monitoring.

The idea of making everyone sign up for a passport is a deeply authoritarian fantasy that has no relationship whatsoever to any real assessment of how to solve real problems on real computer networks.

RE: Eugene Kaspersky == Crazy Fuck