UN Leads Call to Prepare ‘for when Digital Systems Fail’
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Would the governments of the world be prepared for a digital super-GAU? The United Nations response is frightening.
The UN warns that societies are hardly prepared for a collapse of digital infrastructure.
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© UNICEF/Oleksii Filippov Commuters navigate a railway station during a power outage, highlighting how disruptions to electricity can quickly affect transport, communications and daily life. This article is published in association with United Nations. It can be annoying when the wifi signal is cut, but what about if everything digital we rely on were to crash suddenly – from satellites to life-support systems in hospitals? That’s the nightmare …
Geneva, Switzerland.- Although they sound remote, phenomena such as solar storms, ruptures of submarine cables, satellite failures or extreme weather could paralyze digital systems on land, sea and space. The United Nations warns that this would unleash a “digital panic.” Doreen Bogdan-Martin, secretary general of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), said in Geneva that “it is not a question of whether it will happen, but of when.” N…
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It can be annoying when the wifi signal is cut, but what about if everything digital we rely on were to crash suddenly – from satellites to life-support systems in hospitals?
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