North Korea, China and Russia able to use the "E-Bomb"?

[Aquaplant]

Kind of hard to make new circuitry when all the machines that are used for such purpose would be out of order, since it's not possible to replace current electronics with the kind of low tier products that would be possible to manufacture without the use of complex machinery.

[Isard]

Originally Posted by Aquaplant

Kind of hard to make new circuitry when all the machines that are used for such purpose would be out of order, since it's not possible to replace current electronics with the kind of low tier products that would be possible to manufacture without the use of complex machinery.

Military and government systems are hardened against attacks like that, many corporate ones as well (paranoia runs rampant in the business world) EMP's are not a game over, that's alarmist bull**** that spreads every 3-4 years.

[Clarke]

Why would corporation machinery be hardened against EMPs? They have more pressing concerns in the event of a nuclear war.

[Isard]

Originally Posted by Clarke

Why would corporation machinery be hardened against EMPs? They have more pressing concerns in the event of a nuclear war.

Can't profiteer if your equipment's down.

[Clarke]

In the event of a nuclear war, most of the company - who live in cities - will be dead. Equipment failures are a non-issue.

[Aquaplant]

Originally Posted by Isard

Military and government systems are hardened against attacks like that, many corporate ones as well (paranoia runs rampant in the business world) EMP's are not a game over, that's alarmist bull**** that spreads every 3-4 years.

If it doesn't cost them too much extra to have such precautions, then I guess that would be possible, but this is guesswork on my part.

People can only be paranoid if they can afford it. Usually big companies use their extra revenues to secure even more financial ground via all possible manners, as Intel did with its monopoly on the CPU market back in the day, and is now practically the only serious player in the x86 industry these days. It's even possible that they will surpass ARM in the mobile space when they move to small enough manufacturing processes, because they have unfair advantage in having their own fabrication facilities.

It's ironic that I use their products while I still loathe the company itself, but then again I'm sucker for quality products, and that can't be denied on their part, because they have the money and technology to deliver such products that others can't. Ethics is an unknown concept in the system that our society is built upon.

Anyhow, I'm a master of rambling stuff that bears little to no relevance to the topic at hand.