Anyone remember this? "Ralph Nader wants global U.N. Net-regulation body" http://www.politechbot.com/p-01624.html -Declan --- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 20:14:17 -0800 From: Jack Dean <JackDeanat_private> To: Declan McCullagh <declanat_private> Subject: Forget PayPal -- Kapersky is far more dangerous MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UIDL: 85fe1c708f1d9a9dcfb5e143798968b3 http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=791234 Government should control 'Net, Kaspersky says at CeBIT Joris Evers, IDG News Service\Amsterdam Bureau March 13, 2003, 06:40 Governments of the world have to take control of the Internet to save it from buckling under the increasing pressure of worms, viruses and other cyberattacks, Eugene Kaspersky, head of antivirus research at Kaspersky Labs Ltd. of Moscow said. Governments should control the Internet in the same way other public networks, such as electricity and traffic information networks, are controlled, Kaspersky said in a meeting with journalists at the CeBIT trade show in Hanover, Germany, on Thursday. Rules for usage of the network should be enforced by Internet police with users licensed to use the 'Net, he said. "If we want to have a big public network like the Internet in the future, there must be very strict usage rules. If we don't have those, the Internet will just die," Kaspersky said. "The Internet today is like a road without policemen and driving licenses." Kaspersky warned of a "new era" of global Internet attacks in which antivirus companies won't be able to protect users. The advent of fast-spreading Internet worms has decreased the time vendors have to provide protection to a day or two, according to Kaspersky. Smarter worms will propagate even faster. "In the future antivirus companies won't be able to deliver protection on time," Kaspersky said. "We have to prepare for a scenario one day this year or next year that will visibly slowdown the global Internet." ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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