What can happen when the lights went out around the globe and everything went dark? That’s the idea with the new NBC drama REVOLUTION that airs September 17th at 10 EST. Since Disaster Recovery is acceptable up our alley, we figure it’s worth visiting for our crew.
Yeah , yeah. It’s likely the entire globe won’t suddenly be lacking all electricity, but let's say - gasp - just the Internet transpired? Can you even remember an occasion when we didn’t have got the inter webs, aside from the smart phones that connect us for them 24/7. Could you panic? Would your heart start racing as fast as any one Go Daddy’s customers on September 10th when all their websites and hosting went down? Which had been virtual pandemonium. The help center lines rang a quick busy all night, the system was overloaded with terrorized companies in the middle of a whole productivity meltdown that afternoon.
The Go Daddy incident (whether or not it was or wasn’t the job of Anonymous, Go Daddy’s claiming internal router issues) was small potatoes in comparison to the thing that was unleashed recently into the nuclear defense system of Iran. Proof positive by investing in a more organized and well-funded effort, cyber threats to our critical infrastructure - water purifications, power generator and you never know what else - really are a very genuine thing.
What’s referred to as Stuxnet virus, which according to the New York Times, is credited because the work of yankee and Irsaeli governments, is a highly sophisticated computer worm established via a simple USB thumb drive. Stuxnet infected the industrial software and equipment running Iran’s nuclear centrifuge system and literally damaged the machines essential to Iran’s uranium enrichment program.
Thankfully for the majority of American’s, a tight schedule Daddy event is the closest widespread outage they’ve have you been put through (and we hope ever will and they had online data backup in play), but on Monday evening, we are able to all play just a little “what if.” (The pilot is around the NBC website here.)
Such as the girl right after this video, “I hope that never happens,” but we want to know, how were you effected through the Go Daddy outage and - how would you act when the power went out?
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