Miyerkules, Oktubre 3, 2012

Go Daddy and Revolution: What would you do?


What can happen when the lights sought out all over the world and everything went dark? That’s the idea of the new NBC drama REVOLUTION that airs September 17th at 10 EST. Since Disaster Recovery is acceptable up our alley, we figure it’s worth visiting for our crew.

Yeah, yeah. It’s likely the entire globe won’t suddenly be devoid of all electricity, but imagine if - gasp - just the Internet went down? Can you even remember a time when we didn’t have the actual interwebs, not to say the smart phones that connect us in their mind 24/7. Would you panic? Would your heart start racing as soon as any one Go Daddy’s customers on September 10th when almost all their websites and hosting went down? Which had been virtual pandemonium. The exact help center  lines rang a fast busy all night, the machine was overloaded with terrorized business people amid an entire productivity meltdown that afternoon.

The Go Daddy incident (whether or not it was or wasn’t the task of Anonymous, Go Daddy’s claiming internal router issues) was small potatoes when compared with that which was unleashed recently in to the nuclear immune system of Iran. Proof positive by investing in a far more organized and well-funded effort, cyber threats to our critical infrastructure - water purifications, power generator and you never know what else - really are a very genuine thing.

What’s known as the Stuxnet virus, which according to the The big apple Times, is credited because the work of American and Israeli governments, is really a highly sophisticated computer worm established via a simple USB thumb drive. Stuxnet  infected the economic software and equipment running Iran’s nuclear centrifuge system and literally damaged the machines essential to Iran’s uranium enrichment program.

Thankfully for many American’s, the Go Daddy event is the closest widespread outage they’ve have you been subjected to (so we hope ever will and they had online data backup in play), but on Monday evening, we are able to all play just a little “what if.” (The pilot is on the NBC website here.)
Such as the girl right after this video, “I hope that never happens,” but we want to know, how had you been effected by the Go Daddy outage and - how would you react when the power sought out?