Every electrical device with a circuit board or wiring would become nothing but paperweights. We'd be thrown into the stoneage worldwide. The only reason the Carrington event didn't was because we didn't have a world full of tech back then. Storing data offline would be redundant....... you wouldn't have a working PC or laptop to access the data.......also, you stored it on a HDD/FLASH device......so there is circuitry, magnetic discs etc.......you're screwed anyway. Unless you own a very deep cave with its own power source and all your tech was housed in said cave and within a Faraday Cage.......you'd still be pretty screwed.
So what we need to do is switch everything off now in preparation, then, after the event...... plug them into the wall and switch them on using the current obtained from a non existent power grid?
I'd say most people would care more about clean running water, food, shelter than sitting on their ass trying to generate enough watts to power a fucked out PC so you could have your pedo lists, resignation lists, memes etc back to show a crowd of hungry displaced humans. But what would I know.....
But wouldn't the information still be there waiting for people to see after the blackout is over?
Every electrical device with a circuit board or wiring would become nothing but paperweights. We'd be thrown into the stoneage worldwide. The only reason the Carrington event didn't was because we didn't have a world full of tech back then. Storing data offline would be redundant....... you wouldn't have a working PC or laptop to access the data.......also, you stored it on a HDD/FLASH device......so there is circuitry, magnetic discs etc.......you're screwed anyway. Unless you own a very deep cave with its own power source and all your tech was housed in said cave and within a Faraday Cage.......you'd still be pretty screwed.
Correction: Every POWERED device with a circuit board...
If you save to a free standing hard drive (not plugged in) or USB memory stick, it would be unaffected.
thats actually not true at all.
the EMP causes arcing all over boards weather they are powered or not, frying out all sorts of components...
essentially... there is a reason all your new electronics come in static free bags.
an event like this would fuck up everything.
next time you see an old microwave on the side of the road, or yours stops working... don't throw it away... just use it as a cheap faraday cage.
perfect for storing hard drives, portable storage drives, walkies, things like that...
Oh neat.
So what we need to do is switch everything off now in preparation, then, after the event...... plug them into the wall and switch them on using the current obtained from a non existent power grid?
You mean noone could figure out how to build another computer and all those computers still in the box would be fried too? Well, ok.
I'd say most people would care more about clean running water, food, shelter than sitting on their ass trying to generate enough watts to power a fucked out PC so you could have your pedo lists, resignation lists, memes etc back to show a crowd of hungry displaced humans. But what would I know.....
Ahh, see still so much I don't know. Would this be true for a device powered off and not connected to wifi?
Everything is toast.