[LINK] Redundancy, they´ve heard of it

[Steven Clark]

Third time lucky, perhaps?

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Steven R Clark
Sent from my outboard brain ...

On 07/04/2011, at 12:11, fernando cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
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