If people want a secure, "I know who you are" environment, they must accept to pay for it and take the consequences for their

own identity being fully out there for the fraudsters to pillage and plunder.

And, by pay for it, I mean that they should belong to a "pay as you go" service. Not an open environment.

We pay taxes to ensure photo ID cards are valid and pay police to enforce those artifacts. We go into public places knowing

that we will not know everyone, that there are pickpockets and con men.

<sigh>

the article is saying the "I know who you are" argument is pointless, that technology will be able to track / trace

your supposedly anonymous avatar(s) across the whole online space

I read something like this in one of the Douglas Coupland books, identifying people by their consistent typos, phraseology and such

It currently seems rather sci-fi-ish, but then so were today's computers about 50 years ago.