All I can say is that you have strong opinions about telephony, the markets, and the utilities for someone who has clearly never spent time working with the backend systems of phone companies, exchanges, and power companies.

But yes, regulations would be nice. That way, after a foreign power we've pissed off by parking aircraft carriers in their shipping lanes decides to inflict tens of billions of dollars of damage on us with a a few hours keyboarding, we can at least try to sue someone.