Internet wires cut, man with giant shears sought
BANGLADESH today launched a nationwide investigation after the country's entire Internet link was put down for the day by a mystery man with a pair of scissors.
Apparently, important cables were cut twice last week as well, which caused huge problems to the country's businesses.
Bangladesh Telephone and Telegraph Board manager Ziaur Rashid Sofder is on the case, AFP reports, saying that an investigation is taking place with "high priority."
It's not the first time cables have been cut - last October there was a similar attack. Sofder and his cohorts are taking matters"very seriously" because it was a "really big sabotage," he says.
The assailants of last year's attack claimed that someone had given them money to cut the cables, but police are still baffled as to who.
Today's attack well and truly screwed up Bangladesh, says Azahar Chowdhury, the vice president of Internet Service Providers of Bangladesh, saying that the sabotage stopped all Internet use and international calls for most of the day. ยต
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Put those cables in a metal pipe and bury them. Thats one of the first things they teach you about physically securing a network. Good way to shield the cables from the elements as well.
Dig down far enough with a shovel, wrap a decent steel cable around internet connection, secure cable to a light truck or tractor, drive off....

You didn't honestly think they would use a pair of scissors?

If they have enough money, and want to make a proper job of it, small shaped charges will do faster and leave less trace.
And while youre being completely stupid about the topic "Damage" consider the people effected who may have needed to make emergency calls for an ambulance, expectant mothers, sick children etc.
Doctors using the net for consulting and imagery.

Terrorism is just plain stupid ... it effects ordinary people.

People who damage essential services should be "reformatted" ... preferably low level.

end rant
I think this was a pretty clear attack on the voip "help desk" system dell, hp, and just about every other company use these days...maybe they did us a favor.
Wasn't the internet designed to reroute itself in the event of nuclear catastrophe? How come chopping a few wires takes out a whole country?
Why would anyone need to call internationally for:

"an ambulance, expectant mothers, sick children etc..."

???
The word you are looking for is 'Bengali', not 'Bangladeshi'.
"Doctors using the net for consulting and imagery."


If your doctor needs to Google in the middle of surgery, you need a better doctor.
"Terrorism is just plain stupid ... it effects ordinary people."

Genius statement of the week...
Hegemon:

You're wrong. If it happens in Bangladesh, it's Bangladeshi. If it happens in West Bengal, it's Bengali. Complicated, I know.

tmh:

Radiologists work both hemispheres these days. There isn't always one staffed in the ER at night, so they outsource them to a country where it's daylight and get them read by a professional. So it's not necessarily doctors Googling to kill time.