For most of us, SoBig.F has been a mild annoyance. For overzealous bureaucrats, it’s an opportunity to prove that what the internet really needs is some good old fashioned government oversight. According to today’s New York Times:

As America’s 156 million Internet users brace for the next round of digital vandalism, some experts say that it is time for the government to bolster a basic sense of stability in cyberspace that societies expect from their critical public resources.

“The government has essentially relied on the voluntary efforts of industry both to make less-buggy software and make systems more resilient,” says Michael A. Vatis, former director of the National Infrastructure Protection Center at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. “What we’re seeing is that those voluntary efforts are insufficient, and the repercussions are vast.”

It must be vastly confusing for compulsive regulators to watch the internet flourish in the absence of oversight. A little regulation might relieve some raging cognitive dissonance among the country’s bureaucrats.

Props to Hit & Run

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