Speaking on MSNBC, Miles Taylor, who worked in Trump's administration, outlined the potential threats of a second Trump term.
  • ashok36@lemmy.world
    10·
    11 months ago

    Right? No internet means no economy. Even the simplest daily things like getting gas require an internet connection.

    • TheLurker@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      11 months ago

      Literally every part of critical infrastructure has been connected to the internet.

      No internet means no water, electricity, emergency services, financial services, waste management…

      It’s the digital rod for our modern back.

      • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        11 months ago

        Most of those emergency services have fall-backs for loss of connectivity. A lot of cases you need people manning consoles that are usually remote.

        Financial services are probably hardest hit. They still have a lot of private networks to keep themselves up say if they just iced DNS.

        But yeah, if they just proclaim no network anywhere financial would be doa.