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Cyberspace is critical infrastructure – it will take effective government oversight to make it safe

  • Written by Francine Berman, Hamilton Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Cyberspace is critical infrastructure – it will take effective government oversight to make it safeCyberspace has become indispensable during the COVID-19 pandemic, heightening the need for online protections.Ariel Skelley/DigitalVision via Getty Images

A famous 1990s New Yorker cartoon showed two dogs at a computer and a caption that read “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” The cartoon represents a digital past when...

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