Watching some roaches get eaten can give other roaches valuable information about how not to get eaten, and that makes for better and stronger cockroaches. Cyberspace is more like the state of nature than anything we've encountered in a long time. Sometimes, to get from one high point to the next, you have to go down first. Our tendency is to simply get rid of the bad guys, just kill off all the mosquitoes. But then all the beautiful birds die.
Complex systems find a way to adapt.
We have to let cyberspace become more of a jungle - let it grow wild before we start pruning at the margins. You won't get order from law alone. Wired Digital Inc. All rights reserved.