[nnwright]

From my experience during this outage, the ability for the computer to "open" may not actually mean much. While trying to fix what I assumed was a localized software issue I rebooted my machine. Typically this takes a minute or two. However during Apple's systems outage my rebooting took approximately an hour before my computer was in any way functional again.

[Aperocky]

so you can't even reboot without phoning home.

Or can you still reboot without wifi?