Threats to Internet security diminish trust and slow economic development. We view this as a real risk to confidence in the Internet and something we need to urgently combat.

The market will continue to prosper as Internet users nowadays have more confidence in Internet security and more traditional retailers are fast moving into cyberspace to explore new market opportunities.

Spam has shifted from basement amateurs to hard core criminal enterprises. True criminals have started getting into the spam game.

Some feel the perception of spam as an annoyance has decreased because of filters and because people are getting used to it. But the bad news is that spam is changing from an annoyance into something actually very dangerous.

We need to keep investing in economic and homeland security. We need to bank on the right kind of economic development. We need to embrace opportunities, but with the right kind of safeguards.

There are a lot of creeps on the Internet. There's just a certain amount of risk.