Originally Posted by
Kris
I watched it off the back of your recommendation. Interesting stuff indeed, although it would have been beneficial if it was mentioned earlier that the "digital" actress was voicing the opinion of more than one person.
I didn't appreciate that bringing down a power grid would take a long time to resolve. I honestly thought that a power grid would be back up and functioning in a few days, with 100% capacity being reached inside a week.
WW3, if it ever happens, will see battles on fields that many people have not contemplated. Along with the cyber wars, expect satellite wars too. The internet would be one of the first things to go, primarily to make lines of communication more difficult, but also to prevent cyber wars causing more damage. Indeed, there are reports that the Americans attempted to deploy Stuxnet in North Korea but found it impossible because of North Korea's internet policy.
The thought, though, that many of the weapons are already in place on the "enemy" computer networks is surely sobering for Governments worldwide.
The fact that many civilians will be compromised with the stacks of data being held about them should be fascinating if ever a president or prime minister declared Martial Law. They could purge whomever they felt would hinder any war efforts.