Shifting Anonymity for Enhanced Internet Security Against Cybercrime

If you want a secure Internet, you can't be nameless and faceless in cyberspace anymore. It's just that simple, although my friend and colleague Charlie Cooper, doesn't see it that way. He's wrong and I'm right, so I thought I would . . . If you want a secure Internet, you can't be nameless and faceless in cyberspace anymore. It's just that simple, although my friend and colleague Charlie Cooper, doesn't see it that way. He's wrong and I'm right, so I thought I would skip a private talk and just debate the issue here.

Coop and I are reacting to an idea -- I'm not sure you can call it a proposal yet -- being floated by the Clinton administration. Last week, one of the President's chief national security advisors said we should create a second, separate Internet. It would protect your privacy, yet allow authorities to track who passed information from one place to another.

Along with preventing cybercriminals from fading into the cloak of anonymity they enjoy today, it would also be designed to prevent most common security problems. The benefits of this proposal should be obvious:

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