3.2 million web users in Georgia were left twiddling their thumbs for up to five hours as the country's main internet providers - ArmenTel, FiberNet Communication and GNC-Alfa – were prevented from supplying their normal service. Television pictures showed reporters at a news agency in the capital Yerevan staring glumly at blank screens.
Some terrible virus, some evil hacker, Russian tactics?
None of the above, rather a 75 year old woman had been digging in a field near Tbilisi and put her spade through the country's main fibre optic cable.
How fragile the web is......
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