Georgian woman cuts off web access to all of Armenia

[Dan Lund]

That's the lovely part of redundancy :)
It'd be slow, but existent.  Then again, circa 1997 the entire eastern
seaboard was disconnected from the western united states for a (very
small) period of time due to a cable break.  That made me feel real
good about the whole packet detouring thing... or at least the
architects of said network's idea of detouring...
--Dan Lund

"This day will be a great day in our history - the date of a new
revolution, quite as much needed as the old one."
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's diary after the hanging of John Smith
in Charles Town, Virginia (now West Virginia) December 2, 1859



On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 5:02 PM, S Kreimeyer <skreimey at gmail.com> wrote:
> I met one of the civil engineers whom helped build Denver international
> airport. He said that they had to work around a fiber optic cable, and
> that if it were severed the damages were estimated somewhere around
> $3M/sec. I don't think there's much appreciation for how vulnerable net
> infrastructure is.
>
> On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 16:29 -0700, Jordan Aberle wrote:
>> Pwned.
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:23 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>         Entire country loses internet for five hours after woman, 75,
>>         slices through cable while scavenging for copper.
>>
>>         http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/06/georgian-woman-cuts-web-access
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>         ------------------------
>>         Keith Smith
>>
>>         2 Chronicles 7:14 (New International) : if my people, who are
>>         called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my
>>         face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from
>>         heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
>>
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