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I guess you really can kill the internet

zerocool84

zerocool84

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A 75-year old lady from Georgia (the country, not the state) has perpetrated an impressive feat of international sabotage in what seems to have been an accident of extremely bad luck. While foraging for copper wire near her home in the village of Ksani, the unnamed septuagenarian managed to come across a critical fiber optic cable, one responsible for serving internet connectivity to "90 percent of private and corporate internet users in Armenia" and some in her own country as well. Her swift strike at the heart of said bit-transferring pipeline resulted in all those folks being thrown offline for a solid 12 hours, while the Georgian Railway Telecom worked to find and correct the fault. In spite of her relatively benign motivations, the lady now faces three years in prison for the damage she caused. We'd say all's well that ends well, but this doesn't actually seem like a very happy ending at all.
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All the jokes about it are now true.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/06/elderly-georgian-lady-disconnects-armenian-internet-for-half-a-d/
 
apac said:
WTF is "foraging for copper wire"? It's not like it grows on trees.
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MotionMan
 
apac said:
WTF is "foraging for copper wire"? It's not like it grows on trees.
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You never watch the news? People will break into new construction homes or abandoned buildings and rip up the walls and floors for the copper. There's even been cases of people stealing copper toppings off churches and such. It'd be even easier to do it in a place like Armenia or Georgia.
 
Sometime around 1998 or 1999, just outside Atlanta Georgia, some guy had a tractor in his backyard drilling holes for a new fence. from what I heard, the guy had an auger attached to the tractor - which makes drilling holes real easy. One of the holes for the fence cut the main fiber optic line going to Atlanta.

Internet Traffic had to re-routed to other fiber lines to restore service while the repair crews spliced the fiber back together.

When I was working for a cable modem provider in North Houston, someone shot a fiber optic feeder line with a shotgun..
 
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