Reply to Thread

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.

Message: <blockquote data-quote="HoLeChit" data-source="post: 4055672" data-attributes="member: 35036">Honestly, I think that an extremely unlikely EMP attack won't do much. With current technology, the only way to create a serious, large area EMP strike of any meaningful magnitude would be via a nuclear reaction. Even then, with all that in mind, you should be able to protect most of your stuff with a faraday bag. Or aluminum foil. Or any sort of plain ol metal container you have floating around. Honestly, I'm willing to bet a sheet metal barn or shed would do a pretty decent job of protecting your stuff within it. Also, while people don't build datacenters for EMP blasts (at least I don't think they do) They do build datacenters that can withstand just about anything, and generally have a lot of redundancy. Between the extremely impressive buildings, the server racks, and general precautions taken, I am willing to bet most datacenters would make it just fine. In both of the above cases, surge protectors will do a large part of stopping damage as well.There's definitely going to be some issues afterwards, and I bet they will be bad deals, but I dont think an EMP attack will be as devastating or widespread as most people think it will be.</blockquote>