HLMenckenFan@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoDonald Trump may "turn off the internet" if elected, former staffer sayswww.newsweek.comexternal-linkmessage-square86fedilinkarrow-up1430arrow-down178cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected]
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minus-squareashok36@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 year agoRight? No internet means no economy. Even the simplest daily things like getting gas require an internet connection.
minus-squarelinearchaos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·11 months agoMost of those emergency services have fall-backs for loss of connectivity. A lot of cases you need people manning consoles that are usually remote. Financial services are probably hardest hit. They still have a lot of private networks to keep themselves up say if they just iced DNS. But yeah, if they just proclaim no network anywhere financial would be doa.
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minus-squarecosmicrookie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·11 months agoDid you know that in South Africa, the power is shut regularly by their government?
minus-squareMadMaurice@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoI think you missed the point the other person was trying to make. They mean shut off all electrical grids. I don’t think South Africa has that power.
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Right? No internet means no economy. Even the simplest daily things like getting gas require an internet connection.
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Most of those emergency services have fall-backs for loss of connectivity. A lot of cases you need people manning consoles that are usually remote.
Financial services are probably hardest hit. They still have a lot of private networks to keep themselves up say if they just iced DNS.
But yeah, if they just proclaim no network anywhere financial would be doa.
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Did you know that in South Africa, the power is shut regularly by their government?
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I think you missed the point the other person was trying to make. They mean shut off all electrical grids. I don’t think South Africa has that power.