Elderly lady cuts off Internet in Armenia
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Elderly lady cuts off Internet in Armenia
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Re: Elderly lady cuts off Internet in Armenia
#2Not just Armenia: In addition, areas of Georgia and Azerbaijan were also taken offline.
Much more detail in The Guardian article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/06/georgian-woman-c...
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#3I like the euphemism 'while foraging for copper wire'. Maybe we should use that phrase for torrents 'piracy?!? - no, don't be silly - I was just foraging for movies'.
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#4They'll probably reinstall that cable, now, with one small addition: an off switch, and a soldier on post nearby.
"Hello, Sergey, headquarters here. there's another insurrection. Throw the off switch."
Sergey throws off switch
"Okay, done." no signal "Hello? Hello?"
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#5"Our fibre backbone conforms to the highest level's of physical security", Mr. Ionatamishvili later said - calming worries that any curious eavesdropper could Man-in-the-Middle his countries communications. "We hide at least 70% of it under train tracks or shrubbery."
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#6Poor lady faces prison. What about people responsible for laying a cable like that, accessible to anyone with small scissors?
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#7Poor lady faces prison. What about people responsible for laying a cable like that, accessible to anyone with small scissors?
She was digging for copper wires, and not even in her property. The photo you see with a small scissors is just a stock photo.
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#8I like the euphemism 'while foraging for copper wire'. Maybe we should use that phrase for torrents 'piracy?!? - no, don't be silly - I was just foraging for movies'.
The guardian articles seems to explain it better:
Pulling up unused copper cables for scrap is a common means of making money in the former Soviet Union. Some entrepreneurs have even used tractors to wrench out hundreds of metres of cable from the former nuclear testing ground at Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan.Re: Elderly lady cuts off Internet in Armenia
#9"Our fibre backbone conforms to the highest level's of physical security", Mr. Ionatamishvili later said - calming worries that any curious eavesdropper could Man-in-the-Middle his countries communications. "We hide at least 70% of it under train tracks or shrubbery."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/06/georgian-woman-c...
"An elderly Georgian woman was scavenging for copper to sell as scrap when she accidentally sliced through an underground cable and cut off internet services to all of neighbouring Armenia"
Emphasis mine.
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