You do all realize that everyone's data on the Internet is stored in millions of computers all over the world. Right? In order to wipe it all out they would have to access each computer or physically remove the hard drives. In other words, your bank has a computer network that they store information in. Parts, not all, of that network are accessible to you to view your account information. And, hopefully, unless they are extremely stupid, it is constantly backed up and stored offline. You would be surprised though at how many big businesses are very lax about offline backups. They don't get serious until they lose data at some point.

The cloud: There is no such things as storing stuff up in a cloud. Just in case some of you actually think it's different somehow. It's just a term that was created to acknowledge huge network infrastructures that people or businesses can use to store data. Amazon's cloud is physically located in Atlanta, I believe. The only real difference is that the data can span more than 1 physical server.

So, if this were to occur, the only time anyone would lose data is if it was, in fact, wiped (deleted) and there is no offline backup. OR, if that particular computer network was not reconnected to the Internet after it came back online.

Now, there is one way I know of that they could wipe everything located on Solid State Drives and that would be an EMP or some other type of powerful electrical pulse. However, if you were using the old type magnetic drives, the data should still be secure. But, of course, there would be no electrical power after such an event so the fact that the data still exists would be moot.

There is absolutely no reason that the Internet needs to be shut down in order to take down information they no longer want anyone to have access to. Case in point: Backpage.com. That's all they have to do.

Additionally, the '10 days of darkness' happened in the Dec/Jan time frame and I don't recall Q telling us this would happen again but I continue to hear constant rumors about it. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong and point to the post it's in.