View: No rules of the road protect cyberspace, where we live our lives today SECTIONS View: No rules of the road protect cyberspace, where we live our lives todayBy Narain Batra, TOI Contributor Last Updated: May 21, 2021, 10:09 AM IST Share Synopsis A most attractive feature of cyberspace is that its entrance threshold is so low that an ingenious self-taught person could create apps and new platforms, and become rich; or become a hacker and get into infrastructure, financial or military systems without leaving a trace. ThinkStock Photos America created cyberspace in its own image – free, open, decentralised, distributed, and self-governing. If the internet had been created in China or Russia, its architecture would have been very different.