As a new cybersecurity bill paves the way for the US government to share classified information with private sector operators of ‘critical infrastructure’, author Misha Glenny (pictured) writes in the FT that the internet’s uncharted territory is being rapidly nationalised.
While there is clearly a pressing need to define rules that apply in cyberspace, they are emerging at speed with little coherent strategy behind them. Nobody knows where this process will lead for two central reasons. The speed of technological change means that the traditional tools of state used to carve up the world in the 19th century, such as laws and treaties, are often inadequate, if not entirely irrelevant, when applied to this new domain.
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