[139413] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bubba is a 75 year old woman looking to make some extra cash
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeroen van Aart)
Thu Apr 7 14:54:48 2011
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 11:54:21 -0700
From: Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/06/georgian-woman-cuts-web-access
Babushkas can be quite mean, though mostly it's shopping bags that are
their preferred tools of assault. ;-)
From TA:
"The cable is owned by the Georgian railway network. It is heavily
protected"
I don't think that's true, you can't really heavily guard every stretch
of cable since it spans such a long distance. There will always be weak
spots.
From TA:
"Pulling up unused copper cables for scrap is a common means of making
money in the former Soviet Union."
This is common in the Netherlands too nowadays and other countries too I
am sure. Because copper has gone up in price considerably. In the
Netherlands especially copper lines along railroad tracks are removed,
disabling alert systems with obvious dangerous results.
Regards,
Jeroen
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