Richard Clarke wants to close the Internet

[eridani]

Hope EFF et al are on this.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/02/richard_clarke_speech_trust_online_santa_clara_university_microsoft/

Richard Clarke, the man who served President Bush as a special adviser for cyber security, has a five-point plan for saving the internet.

Speaking at a Santa Clara University conference dedicated to "trust online," Clarke called the net "a place of chaos in many ways, a place of crime in many ways," but laid out several means of righting the ship, including biometric IDs, government regulation, and an industry wide standard for secure software. He even embraces the idea of a closed internet - which seems to have sparked a death threat from net pioneer Vint Cerf.

[aquart]

1. A firing squad seems perfectly reasonable to me.

But I can't wait till he tells Microsoft they can't put out a product until it's error free. I would pay money to be in the room.

[whistle]

3. I would pay money to see that become a reality

...not so much error free as 99.9% error free would be quite acceptable. Also virus/trojan/worm and ad pop-up free as well along with spy proof and keep the government snopes out proof also.

[TheUniverse]

2. North Korea has a closed internet.

Why don't we steal their great idea and become more like them? Screw American principals of freedom.