Wow! Even if it is North Korea, it is quite spooky to think that one person was able to take down the internet of an entire country.
Think of what would happen if someone was able to take down the entire internet of the United States! I’d say it would throw the country into the Dark Ages, but probably more like the 70s before everyone was using computers and cell phones.
The really bad part would be that it wouldn’t only cripple the economy, it would probabaly destroy it since everything these days is done via internet. Do you think there is a way that financial companies could recover their information if for some reason they couldn’t use the internet anymore? It’s scarey to think about.
How much money is in your wallet if all the ATMs went down and your bank couldn’t use their computer to tell you how much you had in your account? I’ve only got $12 in mine at the moment. So that’s not going to buy much. If the computers went down for good I’d lose nearly $680M. That would be a bit devistating.
Hopefully it will never happen though. But companies really do need to do more to make sure that their information is protected from hackers. There are far too many stories about some company getting hacked and then the information of millions of people getting stolen. But unfortunately no computer system is going to be 100% foolproof. We just have to be diligent in the protection of the information.
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