For something like this, "shutting down the Internet" is temporary at best (and likely impossible without help; DARPA designed the internet such that the backbone would resist nuclear armageddon). Everyone has their own files and can put them back up within days of communications being restored (and it's not like that's even very difficult; I could link everyone in a 50 unit building with wifi routers myself, and I haven't worked with computers in years).
I wonder if part of this "pandemic" would be some kind of worm that wipes everyone's files from their own storage? Considering how many operating systems (and versions of them) are in use today, it would be ambitious, to say the least. Or will they cheap out and just wipe the cloud backups?
For something like this, "shutting down the Internet" is temporary at best (and likely impossible without help; DARPA designed the internet such that the backbone would resist nuclear armageddon). Everyone has their own files and can put them back up within days of communications being restored (and it's not like that's even very difficult; I could link everyone in a 50 unit building with wifi routers myself, and I haven't worked with computers in years).
I wonder if part of this "pandemic" would be some kind of worm that wipes everyone's files from their own storage? Considering how many operating systems (and versions of them) are in use today, it would be ambitious, to say the least. Or will they cheap out and just wipe the cloud backups?
Either way, they can't corrupt disc backups.