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3 June 2015, 12:06
I'm in two minds on this....
Yes we are 'ultra' reliant on technology, but in the short term I think there is enough resilience in place through duplicate data centres; off-site backup's; business continuity plans etc.
Yes networks could go down or a few days, even a few weeks, but in most cases I think they would be back up pretty quickly (relatively). That's not to say there wouldn't be disruption and problems....... and as BP says people wouldn't be getting their daily fix!
But I think the biggest unknown is what the effects of a major EMP strike would produce on all these systems, particularly critical infrastructure (rather than social media platforms) no-one really knows for sure.......
Yes we are 'ultra' reliant on technology, but in the short term I think there is enough resilience in place through duplicate data centres; off-site backup's; business continuity plans etc.
Yes networks could go down or a few days, even a few weeks, but in most cases I think they would be back up pretty quickly (relatively). That's not to say there wouldn't be disruption and problems....... and as BP says people wouldn't be getting their daily fix!
But I think the biggest unknown is what the effects of a major EMP strike would produce on all these systems, particularly critical infrastructure (rather than social media platforms) no-one really knows for sure.......