Here in Malaysia, we would hear of electrical cable theft from time to time but I personally never heard such thing happened to fibre-optic cables. Well, that is exactly what happened in Georgia and check this out: the accused is a 75-years old woman.
According to a Georgian interior ministry spokesman, the woman was looking for scrap metals when she found and hacked the cable open which resulted in almost 12 hours of Internet downtime for majority of Internet users in Georgia and its neighboring country, Armenia. The woman has now been charged with damaging property and is now facing up to three years of jail time if convicted, even though she has been released from custody for the time being due to her age.
Meanwhile, now that our Internet infrastructures are slowly being replaced with fibre-optics, do you think such case will happen in Malaysia? I hope not because Internet downtime is seriously a pain in the...well, you know what I mean.
[Source: Yahoo via CNET. Image: Kenny Holston, used under Creative Commons license.]
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