11/8/15 Superman is Relieved

[Goldengirl]

I don't know about coding/programming to protect computers but I do know that the best way to protect from something like a CME would be to hard shell the area. IOW, either build a specific building that's designed to protect from an EMP or put the computers in a place that would be naturally protected.

I do have to wonder what's going on that would cause sites to spend time changing their coding to the point it shows up day after day in the bot.

It's called a Faraday Cage.

What I don't get is this - even though individual servers might be protected (ala a Faraday cage set-up), if the grid goes down it won't matter how many servers have been protected, we'll be out of juice. I've heard that the ability to protect the grid wouldn't really take all that much in terms of how the gov't and industry currently bleeds out our money - but they won't do it. So whether it's the sun, or it's the terrorists, without power it will take a loooong time to get back to normal. Just to replace the fried out transformers would be months/years. And in the meantime, no gas pumps would work, no food would get delivered (it's crazy how little the food supply is at the local level), medicine supplies would run out and a lot of folks would suffer and die.

Sorry for the rant, this scares me more than anything.