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  1. This article does not mention common sense stuff -- like making printed copies of important documents, storing data on external hard drives, or having a Ham radios and/or walkie talkies or mesh networks!

    Experts Warn The #Internet Will Go Down In A Big Way — And You'd Better Be Ready

    Story by Geoff Williams, 9/23/2025

    "It’s bad enough when the internet goes down for a few hours because your power went out after a storm, but what if the internet went down indefinitely, sort of everywhere? What if your state or an entire region of the country lacked the internet or electricity because of a cyberattack or something innocuous, like problems with an aging grid or the federal government forgot to pay a bill?"

    Read more (pretty lame -- reads like a #Starlink advert):
    msn.com/en-us/news/technology/

    #InternetOutages #KesslerSyndrome #CarringtonEvent #cyberattacks #1000SIMCards #CyberAttacks #SystemVulnerabilities #ConnectedGrids #TechDisruption #DisruptiveTechnology
    #Landlines #TechVulnerability #OneThousandSIMCards #Malware #Stuxnet

  2. So my service provider and a cell provider are down due to sage to fiber optic, and the area I lobe in is affected. People don't seem sure how to function without the Internet and meanwhile my wife and I are just looking at our movies thinking "what do we watch next?"

    #physicalmediaforever #internetoutages #lifehack