We should avoid real world analogies. That's how we got into the culture of throwing people in jail for reporting a security bug (why were you snooping around on my property!) and stuff like "you wouldn't download a car".
The specific problem with the murder analogy is that governments have effective ways to reduce local crime. You can't do anything similar for stuff happening on the internet. Criminals come from all over the world.
Even if you can get every government to agree, not all of them have the resource to implement any effective form of deterrence. It also seems like the solution will be way worse than the problem. You either firewall yourself off from the world (what china does) or add so much spying that you can always catch the "bad guys". I can't think of any other solution. If we want a free internet, we just have to accept some are going to abuse their freedom to do bad things and deal with it.
IMHO there should be a separate, encrypted-only, ID-required network for "serious internet business". Keep the free and open part open and free (and semi anonymous), but have another area which is more controlled. I'm not saying this would solve all problems, but I think it would help.
You can already do that with VPNs. Businesses already heavily leverage them, and consumers are generally not interested in the hassle. You'd also have to be careful with the implementation. If one computer can be connected to both networks (and it sounds like they'd almost have to be), hackers will bounce their connections of someone else's computer. C&C traffic comes in via the insecure connection and out via the secure connection.
It would probably hamper script kiddies, but it's not going to do much in the face of a targeted attack. And even a semi-motivated script kiddie could probably buy a service from a botnet to route their traffic onto the secure network.
Not sure why you think the way China does it has to be the only way it can be done. It's exactly like shouting "COMMUNISM!!!!" at every social policy idea. Get a grip.
> The specific problem with the murder analogy is that governments have effective ways to reduce local crime. You can't do anything similar for stuff happening on the internet. Criminals come from all over the world.
Extradition for murderers is incredibly common, as are cross-boarder fraud investigations (look at the case of Frank Abagnale) so tracking down people internationally isn't a new thing.
The specific problem with the murder analogy is that governments have effective ways to reduce local crime. You can't do anything similar for stuff happening on the internet. Criminals come from all over the world.
Even if you can get every government to agree, not all of them have the resource to implement any effective form of deterrence. It also seems like the solution will be way worse than the problem. You either firewall yourself off from the world (what china does) or add so much spying that you can always catch the "bad guys". I can't think of any other solution. If we want a free internet, we just have to accept some are going to abuse their freedom to do bad things and deal with it.