Lots of people assuming that a few days of internet outage means you're in a post apocolyptic wasteland. Where I live I could see a specific problem taking sev

Lots of people assuming that a few days of internet outage means you're in a post apocolyptic wasteland. Where I live I could see a specific problem taking several days to fix the phone line that carries my DSL. You might not realize it from recent events but the UK is a modern developed country, but multi day power outages aren't unknown [0], if power lines are down, phone lines could well be too. NotPetya knocked out a lot of payment processing in Ukraine which caused a fair amount of problems. I could see a sophisticated state level coordinated attack knocking out much of the London Internet Exchagne, which would cause massive problems with internet routing in the UK (there are others, but a large amount of connectivity goes through LINX. An attack wouldn't be trivial given the resilience, but part of my job is to imagine the impossible) People not having access to facebook for a week or so wouldn't cause mass riots. Day to day finance would be the biggest issue as so much relies on the internet, but restoring logistic and finance network connectivity would be a high priority. Getting netflix back wouldn't be. [0] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cumbria-60431176 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cumbria-60431176