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Thousands of ATMs Go Down in Indonesia After Satellite Problems (reuters.com)
Thousands of ATMs and electronic card payment machines in Indonesia went offline over the weekend, and it might take two more weeks before full service is restored, after an outage from a satellite belonging to state-controlled telecom giant PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom). From a report: Around 15,000 ground sites across Indonesia were affected by the problem on the 'Telkom-1' satellite, whose service is used by government agencies, banks, broadcasters and other corporations, Telkom's president director Alex Sinaga told reporters on Monday. A shift in the direction of the satelliteâ(TM)s antenna, which was first detected last Friday, had disrupted connectivity. Bank Central Asia (BCA), Indonesia's largest bank by market value, had around 5,700 of its ATMs affected by the outage, or 30 percent of the total operated by the bank, BCA chief executive Jahja Setiaatmadja told reporters. The Internet connection in some remote BCA branches were also affected, he said.
Imagine war against China or Russia, or another major player. One major cyber attack or satellites taken out (or commandeered for alternate purposes by the military).
This could be us. ATMs stop working, Credit card machines stop validating. Fewer deaths and injuries, but perhaps financially more destabilizing for the majority of citizens than getting bombed during WWII was. ... of course we will get bombed too...and probably with nukes... but even the cyber, modern day tech side of things will be very disruptive to modern society. Imagine if no one had access to any money in the west for weeks- in a society that doesn't carry cash anymore. Looting, riots, theft, etc... all would skyrocket.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
No no no! The Russians did it! It will always be the Russians, until the democrats say otherwise
what about ETC-toll fines can bill you the $0 fee / fine if the CC network is down and you can't reload your account? Just 1 trip from Chicago to atlantic city will can drain it and the gate free tolling in IL, PA, NJ will not tell that your account is under $0 at racking up fines and on the return trip you may be crashing though the gate in OH (do they have them on the main line?) or in IN (gates in the ETC only lanes)
Your post got me thinking, after the white supremacists used a vehicle to mow people down in Charlottesville, the Democrats demanded that President Trump condemn white supremacy. And I agree, white supremacy should be condemned. However, the next time Muslims commit a terrorist attack like using a vehicle to mow people down, the Democrats need to condemn Islam. Whether it's white supremacists or Muslims attacking people with motor vehicles, they should be condemned. It's time for the Democrats to end their double standard and speak up against Islam.
Ready to get rid of paper money yet?
amazon go will just let you walk out even when it comes up with billing failed after you are out of the store.
As we become more and more dependent on technology, we introduce what is tantamount to a single point of failure: electronics. If a terror cell were to detonate several well-placed electromagnetic pulse weapons, we literally turn the clock back over a hundred years. An EMP is significantly easier and cheaper to build, disguise, and ship. Maybe it would not even take that ... maybe all it will take is a cybercriminal to gain access to critical computing systems while government and industry is busy blaming each other, posturing, and threatening. Imagine if a cyberterrorist gained access to critical control systems at several nuclear power generation plants, disabling the safety systems, and stopping the water cooling system. The resulting explosion would make Chernobyl look like a camp fire by comparison. The delivery of nuclear weapon is rapidly becoming too expensive and complicated when there are cheaper options that could be just as effective. It would even be safer for the cyberterrorist because his tracks would be covered by proxy as a result of the ensuing chaos.
As someone who'd sit around a mortar shell crater during recess and who simply returned to class after another shell took out parts of the corner and roof of our high school gym (with no one in it at the time), while still having shitty but free medical service, working police force, rationed but working and continuously repaired electricity supply (all them shells) and water supply in similar condition, a working library, working (though mostly local) phone system, TV and radio transmissions... all while having nothing close to three square meals a day... I CALL BULLSHIT.
Civilization works as long as there are COMPETENT PEOPLE DOING THEIR JOBS and as long as gods and other boogeymen are kept out of the equation.
Cause it was very much a boogeymen war.
Where boogeymen were "them", of other ethnicity which was conflated with bowing down to other god(s).
And wherever boogeymen logic was allowed to take priority we had war crimes, ethnic cleansing and genocide.
I.e. Failure of civilization.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Only one problem with that. Indonesia *is* the largest Muslim country on Earth.
They are actually testing this out to see what would happen if they could shut it all down globally. These tests are done a lot in Britain where the evil Rothschilds live. This is why they are trying to get everyone off of cash, and everyone is eating it up.
No wonder another Indonesian bank BRI bought their owned satellite. This lousy Telkom must be a really shitty telecom.