[LINK] Redundancy, they´ve heard of it

[fernando cassia]

Borat missed a scene like this...

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/scavenging-pensioner-cuts-off-georgia-and-armenias-internet-20110407-1d4xd.html

Georgian police arrested a 75-year-old woman who single-handedly cut off 
internet connections in Georgia and neighbouring Armenia, the interior 
ministry in Tbilisi said.

The pensioner was digging for scrap metal when she hacked into a 
fibre-optic cable which runs through Georgia to Armenia, forcing many 
thousands of internet users in both countries offline for several hours 
on 28 March.

"She found the cable while collecting scrap metal and cut it with a view 
to stealing it," Georgian interior ministry spokesman Zura Gvenetadze said.

The woman who was arrested in the village of Ksani, north of capital 
Tbilisi, has been charged with damaging property and could face up to 
three years in prison if convicted.

"Taking into account her advancing years, she has been released pending 
the end of the investigation and subsequent trial," Gvenetadze said.

Many Georgians' internet connections were also briefly cut in 2009 by 
another scavenger who damaged the fibre-optic cable while hunting for 
scrap metal in the impoverished ex-Soviet state.

The company that owns the cable, Georgian Railway Telecom, said that the 
latest damage was serious, causing 90 per cent of private and corporate 
internet users in Armenia to lose access for nearly 12 hours while also 
hitting Georgian internet service providers.