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Comment by Aardwolf | Hacker News Reader

How about banks/brokers and their accounts data?

Hmm if your money is in Charles Schwab, and NY is turned into atoms, do they have backups in non-attacked countries, along with infrastructure to run their code on, and there is a functional internet connection from there to you, maybe. I highly doubt all that will work. Meanwhile you have no money.

Having active-active storage infrastructure within 300km radius creates only 1ms latency. It might work.

I was part of a team hired to create training videos on the banking system "updates" after the OKC bombing. This was the first time I had a look under the hood of a redundant system with Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, and further systems.

Primary and Secondary were running 24/7 with Secondary being in exact sync with Primary. If Primary or Secondary went down, Tertiary could be brought up in sync within 24 hours. Primary and Secondary were geographically separated (east/west coast). Tertiary was in the mid-west. After that, the additional facilities would take days to bring up, and then a bit of time to sync.

The specific bank is no longer alive as it was consumed by one of the "too big to fail" institutions.

WiLl I bE AbLe tO Get MoNeY oUt oF mY 401k dURiNG tHe aPoCALypSe????

The insanity of humanity all here on HN...

You should be more concerned about a “Project Mayhem” attack in that case.

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