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Old Woman brought down Internet for a whole country
Topic Started: Apr 7 2011, 06:07 AM (438 Views)
Axtremus
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Article:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/06/georgian-woman-armenia-internet-_n_845834.html

An old woman in Georgia (the Eastern European country) cut a cable while scavenging for scrap metal, and that cut cut off all Internet services to Armenia.

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"I cannot understand how this lady managed to find and damage the cable," the head of the [telecommunications] company's marketing department, Giorgi Ionatamishvili, also told the AFP. "It has robust protection and such incidents are extremely rare."


Viewed from the First World, this whole thing looks like scapegoating to me. One cable cut brought down Internet services for a whole country??? Which genius designed a country's network with such a single point of failure?!?!
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Axtremus
Apr 7 2011, 06:07 AM
Which genius designed a country's network with such a single point of failure?!?!
Probably a Western telecom company and lowest bidder on an EBRD or World Bank IBRD project in the 1990's
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Axtremus
Apr 7 2011, 06:07 AM
An old woman in Georgia (the Eastern European country) cut a cable while scavenging for scrap metal, and that cut cut off all Internet services to Armenia.
Now *that's* hacking.
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Thank God no Armenians were affected, as they all left the country long ago.
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Axtremus
Apr 7 2011, 06:07 AM
Viewed from the First World, this whole thing looks like scapegoating to me. One cable cut brought down Internet services for a whole country??? Which genius designed a country's network with such a single point of failure?!?!
Well, Armenia is not exactly a big country. Its population is something like Los Angelos. And it is not a very "high tech" country either.

I'd be surprised if one would have to cut more than 10 cables to bring down the Internet in Australia.
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Klaus: Funny you mentioned LA, as more Armenians live there, and in Chicago, than anywhere else.
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My guess is she figured the cable was "scrap metal" and so she made a determined effort to cut it.
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The old lady needs to restrict her scavenging to aluminum cans. In this county, it’s usually it’s a backhoe operator that disrupts a cable line. Someone didn’t call the utility company first to find out if there are any buried utility lines.

Armenia had a big earthquake in the late 1980s. I don’t know how well buried fiber optical cable would hold up if it happened again. There should be a secondary line.


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Really... There might be Armenians who frequent TNCR, who would probably go nuts if they couldn't get their fix. :D
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Apr 7 2011, 06:07 AM

An old woman in Georgia (the Eastern European country) cut a cable while scavenging for scrap metal, and that cut cut off all Internet services to Armenia.

The old lady is now being recruited by the taliban and CIA.

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