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No significant plans are in place if the internet ever broke down worldwide due to planted virus or natural disaster

If this occurred business would halt, doctors would be cut off from patient information, airports, law enforcement, governments all would be in complete chaos. Although some systems such as Os x and blackberries may still work, this is not an absolute. There are individual back up plans for functioning without computers but there is no coordinated plan that goes across regions and multiple service providers in the event that all computer operations were to cease.

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Internet has redundancy, locate backup servers in a different location.

The internet cannot just "shutdown", there is too many duplicity with the net. This point is case was known in 1999 with the Y2K bug. Even as people struggled to prevent a meltdown, it ended up being ...

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