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  • $\begingroup$ "...reason of attack is to show to the Federation of planets that we are still weak to be contacted." Could you clarify what this means, please? $\endgroup$
    – Lostinfrance
    Commented Oct 11, 2015 at 18:18
  • $\begingroup$ Also keep in mind that many large institutions have their critical data secured in storages that are at least partially secure against electromagnetic pulses: thestack.com/data-centre/2015/10/05/… In this way, a lot of the most critical data might be secure from the attack. $\endgroup$
    – Peter S.
    Commented Oct 12, 2015 at 10:48
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    $\begingroup$ I would find a rocket, get into orbit and sucker punch each and every alien for erasing all my game save data... $\endgroup$
    – James
    Commented Oct 12, 2015 at 17:54
  • $\begingroup$ Does it also erase firmware, BIOSes, etc, and at what time does it do so? I'm assuming erase operation are limited to the normal rate of hardware. $\endgroup$
    – timuzhti
    Commented Oct 13, 2015 at 7:45
  • $\begingroup$ For clarity, the effect is not random? It completely wipes the data from every computer that is turned on, but has no effect on the computers that are turned off? (like, say, data stored on backup tapes?) $\endgroup$
    – Cort Ammon
    Commented Oct 13, 2015 at 15:52