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It would leave most developed countries in chaos, people would die because of it.
by tonyedgecombe 11mo ago
It would leave most developed countries in chaos, people would die because of it.
- ema 11mo agoCentralized infrastructure is fragile and to the extent that the internet has become centralized unscheduled Internet shutdowns are bound to happen. The benefit of scheduled Internet shutdown is that people can prepare for it while at the same time gaining experience which helps with dealing with an unscheduled Internet shutdown.
- xmprt 11mo agoOn the other hand, if we force all systems to be resilient to an internet shutdown then we'd end up regressing society by a lot. Think about how much more work a single doctor is able to handle more efficiently by having internet access (eg. charts, patient history, access to all the world's libraries) that would be lost without the internet.
- MarkusQ 11mo agoIf we don't force critical systems to be resilient to an internet shutdown, we'll be doing the meme. Specifically: Weinberg’s 2nd Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
- hnben 11mo agowe do annual unannounced firedrills and now one dies as a consequence.
- soerxpso 10mo agoThat's because the unannounced firedrills don't involve setting the building on fire. A "drill" equivalent would be if we all pretended the internet is down sometimes, and in some cases that still might be impossible to do without negative consequences.
- modeless 10mo agoFire drills do involve denying access, though. We wouldn't need to bomb the datacenters but we would need to make them inaccessible.