I work for the Executive Branch.
Have so for the past 49 years.
We should all be thinking about this EMP stuff
because the government is putting serious work
into it and it does not take the form of
nuclear bombs anymore. It can be used simply
to corrupt and not to destroy.
Computers are becomming some what critical to
everyday life so serious thought should go into
EMP & RFI shielding.
Fiber optics should be used for I/O as well
as faraday shielding. I see no serious effort on
the part of the US to combat the infernal idea
of EMP or RFI when it comes to the general public.
I noticed you seem to be answering a previous post
but this post is the first reply I see in this thread.
Here is the consumer reality as far as EMP goes. Any Electro Magnetic
Pulse sufficient to disable a current home/business computer system is
going to take out most of the electronics and communications equipment in
the. EMP damage can be caused by very few things. Lightning can do it.
Exploding substation/power pole transformers/major power system failures
can do it. Nuclear devices are what started people looking at EMP, and a
new generation of EMP weapons that are being tested and maybe deployed by
governments around the world.
Lightning can't be completely protected against. Proper grounding,
lightning rods, full house surge protection, proper utility installation,
etc. make it less likely but a close strike will do damage.
Freak power grid problems are pretty much like lightning. Have fixed one
system that was damaged by the pulse of a large power transformer in the
area shorting out and exploding. Computer was not even plugged in at the
time.
If damage from Nukes or EMP weapons is a threat to you as a normal
business/consumer, you have much larger problems than EMP to worry about.
JT
