So, AWS, Amazon Web Services, went down early this morning leaving vast numbers of large organisations with no internet service. This did not affect me, I never noticed anything until the media started weeping about it, but the machine is a bit slower, possibly because some are affected.
Twice in recent days the ISP has gone down, no reason stated. Once for a few minutes, the second time for almost an hour. An hour! An hour without life! I began to think I might have to start speaking to people, outside! Luckily this did not result. I breathed easier.
Once again we see how easily society can be halted. All the best security services cannot stop a hacker destroying the system if he decides to. Mistakes and accident may be responsible for these outages but one day it will be an enemy closing society down for a long time, with hopefully only the defence systems still working. Maybe...
I always thought cutting of electricity will kill a city, all will grind to a halt, and today so many have ability to cope with this. We struggled with Covid, how will we deal with no electricity or internet?
Dearie me, if it comes to a halt we might just have to read a book...
4 comments:
Too scary to think about how much we rely on the internet. Not as scary as watching the news and seeing every day what truly bizarre thing the leader of this country is up to. Did you see the video he made after the No Kings parade this weekend?Shameful! He doesn't care. He really thinks he's a king.
The IRA realised this years ago when they took out the electricity supply to the City. Suddenly there was a peace deal. Bomb Downing Street? No problem, plenty more idiots to replace them. Take out the City's communications.....instant action.
Kay, Indeed it is scary what can happen without the web. It is also scary what the Trump can do, and the fake man will fall one day.
Fly, Russia are trying this with Ukraine and no wonder. If only Ukraine could close down Moscow?
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