Go Daddy and Revolution: What would you do?

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

Yeah, yeah. It’s likely the entire globe won’t suddenly be without all electricity, but let's say - gasp - just the Internet took place? Can you even remember a period when we didn’t possess the inter webs, let alone the smart phones that connect us to them 24/7. Would you panic? Would your heart start racing as fast as any kind of Go Daddy’s customers on September 10th when all of their websites and hosting transpired? That has been virtual pandemonium. The help center lines rang a fast busy for hours, the device was overloaded with terrorized business owners in the middle of an entire productivity meltdown that afternoon.
A busy schedule Daddy incident (whether it was or wasn’t the job of Anonymous, Go Daddy’s claiming internal router issues) was small potatoes when compared with the thing that was unleashed recently in to the nuclear defense system of Iran. Proof positive that with a far more organized  and well-funded effort, cyber threats to our critical infrastructure - water purifications, turbine and who knows what else - are a very real thing.

What’s known as the Stuxnet virus, which according to the New York Times, is credited because the work of yankee and Irsaeli governments, is a highly sophisticated computer worm established via a simple USB thumb drive. Stuxnet infected the industrial software and equipment running Iran’s nuclear centrifuge system and literally damaged the machines essential to Iran’s uranium enrichment program.

Thankfully for most American’s, a tight schedule Daddy event may be the closest widespread outage they’ve ever been put through (so we hope ever will and that they had online data backup in play), but on Monday evening, we are able to all play 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 you want to know, how were you effected through the Go Daddy outage and - what would you do if the power went out?

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