https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/security-fears-after-microsoft-outage/e97i1w9vf
Could it be because our government is stupid and incompetent? Of course it’s going to happen because the idiots running our country on both sides of politics don’t think too far ahead or plan for such things. This is the biggest wake up call yet to send the message to the government.
Keep cash on hand and have paper copies of everything. How will you buy food, pay your mortgage, house and contents insurance etc without the internet? These things must be brought up with our politicians. Ask your local politician what will the government do to help us in these circumstances, if you can’t pay for your house insurance or mortgage, who is liable if you can’t get to make payments?
There are so many problems with this scenario that we need to think about and the total dependence on this technology is a huge mistake. Most shops don’t have the old school visa imprinter, the old click clack gadget to take a carbon copy of your visa debit card. Shops didn’t want to have to pay the money to the banks to hire them, on the off chance that there isn’t any internet access. How stupid is that?
Bring them back immediately and train the staff on how to use them. Just imagine being in the supermarket and the lines go down and you can’t feed your family. I have seen this happen a lot in modern times. All supermarkets and service stations should by law have these available to pervert customers from being angry and then taking their frustration out on the staff. These are massive companies that can afford to keep these devices on hand and it needs to be addressed quickly before something happens again.
Then there are hospitals that must have the internet for various important medical purposes. Blood tests that are vital and waiting for the results to come back. There are many things that we don’t think about but are impacted by the internet being unavailable. Massive security breaches and information getting into the hands of dangerous people or governments.
Satellites and under water cables are targets for massive disruption to Australia also and it is pretty easy for a rogue state actor to cut off or access to the world causing an incredible amount of damage to Australia in an instant. How long would it take to put in place any system to bypass the disruption?
I am sure I have over simplified this by not thinking about other things that would be impacted, but you get the message regardless. We simply don’t have enough time to get things in place due to the government not thinking critically enough.
