“One of his goals is to persuade policymakers to refashion the Internet into something more to his liking—and, as it happens, something more to the liking of the Putin government as well. Kaspersky insists that malware like Stuxnet and Flame should be banned by international treaty. He argues that the Internet should be partitioned and certain regions of it made accessible only to users who present an ‘Internet passport.’ The values of openness, freedom, and anonymity became deeply embedded in net culture and in the very architecture of the network itself. But to Kaspersky, these notions no longer work.”
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/07/ff_kaspersky/all/
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