A 75 year old woman in Georgia accidentally cut off the internet to all of Armenia as well as parts of Georgia and Azerbaijan while she was scavenging for scrap copper.
As an IT guy, the idea of having absolutely every piece of internet infrastructure in single _building_ connected to just one single point of failure makes me sweat, but a whole damn country?!
Kinda surprised she never heard of the internet back in 2011-2012 when it had been around for what 2 decades/20+ years already and was just gonna grow and grow in the 2010s too officially speaking 30 years old at that point
@@aiswaryabalachandran2778 I thought it was also obvious that they were gonna be quick to fix a problem which left half the city without connection, but apparently it wasn't
@@gam3rb1u37how do you know that? Most of the time people are poor because they lack the enterprise and courage to do things that make them rich. They deserve to be poor for lacking these qualities.
Can it really be called “the net” if it has only one strand? The whole point of ARPANET was to maintain communication if a city got nuked. Connecting your entire country’s network to a single node is a bad idea.
@@DONTworryIgotTHIS ARPANET is what started the internet. If you want it to be a “network” then it shouldn’t have a single point of failure. Your argument is like saying because the USA invented airplanes it’s dumb to think other countries should have airplanes that can land safely. I’d even argue that it’s even more critical for a small country that close to Russia to have more nodes because it’s unlikely that the USA will have a whole city blip into oblivion at this point, but Russia has no qualms about invading its neighbors and disrupting their infrastructure.
Can you imagine if you were out gathering rocks or something then the cops showed up and said “you’re under arrest for tampering with the rock network”
@@der-Dritte She's 75 year old, how underground could they possibly be? The government failed . Both the country's internet safety and her for not having a way for old people to retire in peace. Put the blame where it really belongs, on those in power.
@@jaggerra7Look, Georgia as a whole has been under hard times throughout all of this, so it's understandable that they didn't do much when it came to what to do with fiber-optic cables from what I've seen.
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If she did a different crime yeah let her go but if I’m watching a super entertaining thing and the internet cuts out… I DON’T CARE THAT SHE DOESN’T KNOW WHAT THE INTERNET WAS AND SHE WAS LOOKING FOR SCRAP COPPER 🔥🔥🔥💥💥💥💥😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬😫😫😫😫😫👹👹👹👹👹👹👹👹👹👹🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺
Such things should be a bit more difficult to get a hold of. If an old lady with a limbs saw can disrupt the entire country and parts of others, you really didn’t put much into your security.
@@Asterion_Mol0c if an old lady can find it, unassisted, the first step would be to put it where old ladies can’t see it. But old lady proofing should be the lowest bar. Well, one of the lowest bars. Squirrel chewing can also be a problem. In my dealings with it, it was always buried at least.
@@Asterion_Mol0cOne doesn’t usually come across buried things, and 75 year old women are not known for their excavation skills. In either case, however deeply it may have hypothetically been buried, it wasn’t deep enough if old ladies can find and excavate it. Of course she might have had a backhoe with her, old ladies are known for that.
@@Asterion_Mol0c If it was buried properly the old lady would never find it, and you should never have everything running on one node that's just complete stupidity
Immagine digging in the ground, as you always do, and then one day the Wizzards show up and haul you away to thier tower because you "broke the magic," and start asking you why.
In the countries of the former USSR, almost all telecommunication lines are routed through the railway, because it is much cheaper. And in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, in fact, there is one (maximum two) railway lines, which is why such situation happened.
A building in my country exploded and injured 15 people because someone stole a gas copper tube. If the metals are attached and working is not scavenging g. It’s stealing …
Bro, the 75% of the comments are fucking protecting the old woman and talking how she's not ignorant and shit even though she literally CUT OFF a fiber optic cable that runs 1 internet btw there's 2 big internet cables that are in railways that runs through Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan because it's much cheaper and they're talking on how stupid the government is even though it's the grandma's fault@@aterack833
@@user-hr1uw4cj2zNo doubt. It's just wild how out of date and out of time some people are. Technology has progressed so fast, if your not a native it all goes over your head.
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@@akorus_master I get why they wouldn't be connected to Azerbaijan but why not Türkiye/🦃? Are they on such bad terms or is it just too costly for whatever reason?
@@thebottles3153 yea but still, old lady. you cant put an old lady in prison also the fact that she has to scavenge scrap copper for cash to survive means that she don't have enough money to pay fines it was also probably when the USSR collapsed and the economy of every soviet republic fell. so you can understand why she started scavenging for scraps
Something like this happened in my city, except it was just the theft of like 10 feet of fiber optic cable. Cut off the internet to a couple big neighbourhoods for a few days. I wonder how much the stolen cable could have even sold for.
Actually a lot of copper wires exist in the region, and since the region is also quite poor, its a way to make money fairly legally since they aren’t in use anymore after the fall of the soviet union.
@jaydenleckpa8381She dug up. cables that were pretty obviously not hers. Even if she didnt know she was shutting down the internet, she knew damn well that she was stealing and destroying someone elses property. Also: the cable was next to a train track. What if it was vital for something like a signal? She could have risked a lot of lives, and i hope she spent a lot of time in a cell to reconsider stealing ever again
Pension isn't enough to live normally in Georgia so old people have to get money from their children or they have to work Especially in Villages. Sorry for my bad English
@@KebboStaryou say that but how the fuck does one without internet knowledge find this information out? Even in the UK, I can’t get a direct map of the electricity lines around where I live, not unless I contact the council and give a really good reason why I need to. She had no way of knowing if what she was cutting into was important or not, but went ahead with it anyway. That internet outage will have affected hospitals, police services, fire departments, schools, elderly care facilities etc.
@@authorofone Sorry? Copper cables in the region just have not been used for a while, people learned about it and make livings off of it, Georgia is not the same as the UK
The fact that the old lady could reach it so easily should be more criminal than her cutting off the internet. Also who would install a vital infrastructure to be so fragile
Fiber optic cables are made of glass like materials. They do not, and can not, carry an electric current. They simply act as a guide/pathway for a beam of light (or laser etc). Impossible to be electrocuted from them.
@@Gemna157 She didn’t know they were active #1 and she was looking for old copper chords to scavenge as many others in her country do #2 and your own comment refers to copper not optic fibre you dense piece of shart #3
@@KebboStar no, the video we are commenting on. It specifically said she was scavenging copper when she decided to cut some (in use) wires to see what kind of metal was inside, did you even watch it?
@@poopooman7101 I was referring to the copper cables that she was looking for, a lot of stuff in the region is dead infrastructure especially in rural areas
@@thesupremecosmo763 didn't steal anything I mean she just wanted some scrap metal to sell for a living also she deserves to be released I mean didn't know what the internet was
Georgian here and i can confirm that we have 3.5million ppl even tho idk how many ppl there are in the state i still think they have more ppl then us Georgians:)
@@Idkwhattowrit3 the state has about 11 million people so like 3 times as much as the country. It’s still sad to see though that many Americans don’t even know the country of Georgia exists. I’m American and I know about other countries but most people don’t.
I hope she didn't get charged. Ya it sucked for everyone else but like she said, she had no concept of the ramifications of her actions. N it would just be punishing her for being poor; it is never justified to punish someone for being poor. Even tho our system does it all the time.
She knew damn well she was damaging someone elses property and stealing. She definetly deserved a jail sentence just for that. How would you feel if someone just started damaging your stuff? Just say „oh theyre old i cant be mad“?
I like how literally everyone just immediately believes the woman when she says she doesn’t know what the Internet is instead of thinking for a second that that could’ve been a lie to get out of it
Old woman in a tucked away country that doesn’t really have major internet infrastructure. To be honest, its pretty believable that she doesn’t know what the internet is
This is why governments and everyone in them NEED to be held accountable! If your country is run properly and people are looked after, then this wouldn't be an issue.
