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"The solution is a drivers license to use the internet. No more anonymity."

Ten seconds later, someone else is posting under your license and you have no clue how and you're stuck talking to a scripted call centre employee who can't help and a police force that isn't interested.

5 billion people around the world are ignoring a "UK driver's license" for internet communication, particularly including potential terrorists. And domestic terrorists are communicating with a license out to an ordinary seeming server and not tripping any flags.

and how would it even work when you take into account free public wifi and carrier grade NAT? There's no equivalent to a single car with an easily tracked registration plate that each person drives over and over and over.

And the internet is explicitly not a public space, it goes from your computer to (say) Comcast's computers, to intermediate carrier computers, to Facebook's computers. There's absolutely nothing public in the same way that highways are public.

You can cause a lot of damage there

We're talking pictures and text. What damage? Do you also want a license to write on paper or post letters or send SMS or make phonecalls or draw paintings or write news or pamphlets or speak where more than two people can hear you?

License so you don't run an exploit on someone else's computer? That's already illegal.



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