I know next to nothing about McAfee or the rest of it but I was brainstorming.

What if the 31 TB of data are on hidden government servers. What better place than right under their noses. Q said the NSA will accidentally release it all. What if that is the trigger? To stop the countdown they have to delete their own servers or shut them down. What if he's set up a digital ultimatum? You release what you have or I will, per the deadman switch. The only way to stop it is to cut off the internet.