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Is online anonymity something that should be banned? Officials in Korea believe so. The New York Times reports on the suicide of Korean star Choi Jin-sil in their October 12th edition. Authorities and close family members and friends concluded that her suicide was a direct result of hateful or hurtful message board and social network posts which others had been able to make anonymously, hiding behind fictional identities.

After years working on identity and its protection, I've concluded that our identity infrastructure is fundamentally broken--and the Web is what ultimately broke it. -- Steven Gal

There's an interesting opinion article on CNET News written by Steven Gal, CEO of ProQuo, a start-up that allows users to choose which paper junk mail to stop receiving from different sources.