The CEO of Russia’s Kaspersky Lab, Eugene Kaspersky, says, “I’d like to change the design of the Internet by introducing regulation—Internet passports, Internet police, and international agreement—about following Internet standards.”

One of the big names in Internet security believes that the Internet has a huge problem: anonymity. The security expert thinks that it is now the time for Internet passports. He says that ‘all countries would have to play along and buy into international standards, “and if some countries don’t agree with or don’t pay attention to the agreement, just cut them off.”

While governments believe that online security is a big priority these days, they still think along national borders of cybercrime, not realizing that the Internet has no borders. Kaspersky, thus, believes that more than the need for cyberpolice, an Internet police or Internet Interpol is an imperative.

He says that cybercrime or threats to online security are perpetrated by high-level experts, and combating them is a ‘technological arms race.’ Hence, the most significant change needed in IT security today is no less than a change in the very design of the Internet itself. The basic flaw of the Internet’s current design is that it offers anonymity.

Kasperksy explains, “Everyone should and must have an identification, or Internet passport. The Internet was designed not for public use, but for American scientists and the U.S. military. That was just a limited group of people–hundreds, or maybe thousands. Then it was introduced to the public and it was wrong…to introduce it in the same way. You’re not sure who exactly has the connection. I can have a Wi-Fi connection and connect using a password, or give away the password for someone else to use that connection. Or the connection could be hacked. Even if the IP address is traced to an Internet café, they will not know who the customer or person is behind the attacks. Think about cars–you have plates on the cars, but you also have driver licenses.”

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Via ZDNet Asia