i've been seeing snips about this but this is the first full presentation about a shutdown of www;

There is a school of thought which holds that very major bad things that happen, are somehow planned, and the evil planners must tell people what they’re going to do before they do it.  Not sure how many people actually believe that, but if it’s true, then this is big: Articles warning of Internet Shutdown – FOR MONTHS!

It started around September 7 with a small article on University of California, Irvine, web site titled “Enjoy the internet while it lasts, the climate crisis might destroy it” and was then augmented with another big story on WIRED.com titled “A Bad Solar Storm Could Cause an ‘Internet Apocalypse'” both of which warn the general public of a possible massive outage of the global Internet, lasting for months.

The warnings are stark.  Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, [assistant professor of computer science at] the University of California, Irvine presented her research into the subject at the recent SIGCOMM 2021 data communication conference, warning that the results of this extreme space weather could prove catastrophic to our current way of life. “What really got me thinking about this is that with the pandemic we saw how unprepared the world was, there was no protocol to deal with it effectively, and it’s the same with internet resilience. Our infrastructure is not prepared for a large-scale solar event.”

That is false on its face...............read more......