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> It's also more likely to survive a major war if it's redundant enough. If there is a major war, international Internet will be one of the first things to go.

• richardknop 9y ago
  Yes I don't really understand the war argument. If there were a massive war (like a world war scale not some conflict in Middle East), the first thing Russia/China would do is cut underwater internet cables. Most nation states would probably block outside internet access to avoid propaganda during time of war. I think I would have bigger concerns than whether I could recover my files stored online. For cases like this I'd much rather trust just a simple USB stick or external drive which I could carry with me in my backpack and backup important files there so I don't have to rely on internet.
  • zzzcpan 9y ago
    No, it's not like that, blocking internet access would cripple nation states' economies too much to even be able to fight a war. But censorship even without a major war requires centralization of control over the internet, which introduces a country-wide weakness that makes the internet unreliable to the point of complete blackouts, like during anti-government protests. Furthermore even a small conflict has an impact on the supply of electricity in the country which also could make all storage nodes there unavailable for prolonged periods of time. There are a lot of other weaknesses too, like not that many countries even have good global internet connectivity and cyber attacks could shut it down entirely.