A 75-year-old woman from a small village north of Tbilisi, Georgia, is being blamed for disconnecting both her country and neighboring Armenia from the Internet.
The woman was collecting scrap metal near Ksani when she allegedly severed a critical fiber-optic cable belonging to the Georgian Railway Telecom company, bringing down thousands of Internet connections across both countries. “She found the cable while collecting scrap metal and cut it with a view to stealing it,”
Georgia’s Interior Ministry spokesman Zura Gvenetadze told AFP. The woman was arrested and charged with damaging property, but was soon released “pending the end of the investigation and subsequent trial.”
A similar incident took place in 2009, when a scrap-metal scavenger briefly disrupted Internet services in Georgia after cutting into the same cable. Maybe consider putting the cable beyond the reach of scavengers? Just spitballin’ here.
[afp / image: arstechnica.]
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