On Saturday, August 29, 2015 at 7:37:44 AM UTC-5, bob haller wrote:

With the improving technology, people become reliant,
and don't know what to do when things break down.
I worry that some day the people who run the country
will turn off internet, and we'll all stand around and
whine and cry.
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one day a cyberattack will take the internet off line, and kill our economy.

everything is networked even traffic lights, the power grid is controlled by the net. take out the power grid will cause a cascade failure, taking out water plants etc


I'd be more worried about an EMP attack which could knock out all non-hardened solid state electronic and computer systems. I'm not sure about old tube type gear but about 20 years ago, I spoke with a gal who was a veteran of The Army Signal Corps and she told me that the Army still had some tube type communications equipment because it wasn't affected by EMP. I can see quite a calamity after an EMP knocks out all the AC units and people may have to start talking to each other after their smartphones burn out. ^_^

[8~{} Uncle EMP Monster