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dsister on 07 April 2011

A 75-year old grandmother accidentally cut off Internet service to Armenia residents on Thursday, after she was looking for copper. The elderly woman single-handedly took down an entire network in Georgia after she sliced through the fiber cable with a shovel; Azerbaijan's service was also disrupted.

While the elderly lady was looking for scrap metal, she stumbled upon the underground fiber-optic cable, cutting it open with her shovel to look for copper. As Foxnews and Nakedsecurity explain, the intent of cutting open the cable was to steal the copper to sell it. The shovel wielding woman was nicknamed the 'spade-hacker' by local media outlets.

The fiber that was sliced served all of Armenia, more than 90% of Georgia and parts of Azerbaijan. Service was disrupted for more than five hours while the cable was repaired, restoring Internet to Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan residents.

The elderly woman was arrested at the scene and later released after the investigation and may face charges.



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spdk1 on 07 April 2011

lol, that seems far too fragile to be such an important component, you'd think there would be redundancies in place.  also if she "stumbled upon" the cable, it must have been sitting on the ground rather than buried.



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Mr Khan on 07 April 2011

This combined with the one involving the wheelchair senior beating up the pedophile, we might be seeing the old people revolution begin.

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sapphi_snake on 08 April 2011

Old people ruin everything, LOL.



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SuperAdrianK on 08 April 2011
sapphi_snake said:

Old people ruin everything, LOL.


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highwaystar101 on 08 April 2011

I know that I'm probably wrong, but doesn't the internet break up a single piece of information, send it along many routes and then reform the information at the end? I thought that it was done this way so that one cable being broken shouldn't affect the internet, and that was one of the main features of it's structure.



Porcupine_I on 08 April 2011

i bet she is a member of Anon!



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MDMAniac on 08 April 2011
highwaystar101 said:

I know that I'm probably wrong, but doesn't the internet break up a single piece of information, send it along many routes and then reform the information at the end? I thought that it was done this way so that one cable being broken shouldn't affect the internet, and that was one of the main features of it's structure.


It's a myth. In theory, yes. But in practice one could just blast off transatlantic cable to cut off America from the world, just for instance. Look for it in the list of US strategic sites which was wikileaked last year.



zarx on 08 April 2011
highwaystar101 said:

I know that I'm probably wrong, but doesn't the internet break up a single piece of information, send it along many routes and then reform the information at the end? I thought that it was done this way so that one cable being broken shouldn't affect the internet, and that was one of the main features of it's structure.


as I understand it yes but in this case there was only one cable connecting a vast network to the rest of the internet, quite an oversight for whatever telcos were responsible...



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MDMAniac on 08 April 2011
zarx said:

as I understand it yes but in this case there was only one cable connecting a vast network to the rest of the internet, quite an oversight for whatever telcos were responsible...


LOL, you'd be suprised to know how common such "irresponsibility" is. And I wouldn't call it exactly like this, infrastructure always costs big money, you know, and it's always pain in terms of ROI. While customers are obviously preferring "cheap" and "unlimited" over anything else. You get what you pay for, after all.