OK, so this isn’t so much a security piece as a good laugh. Well, I guess if you factor in availability as a security angle then, yes, it counts.
From USA Today:
Internet speed and connectivity in Africa’s largest economy are poor because of a bandwidth shortage. It is also expensive.
Local news agency SAPA reported the 11-month-old pigeon, Winston, took one hour and eight minutes to fly the 50 miles from Unlimited IT’s offices near Pietermaritzburg to the coastal city of Durban with a data card was strapped to his leg.
Including downloading, the transfer took two hours, six minutes and 57 seconds — the time it took for only 4% of the data to be transferred using a Telkom line.
Wow. How is that for a kick in the balls?
For the full article of bandwidth woe, read on.
(Original pidgeon image used under CC from lordferguson‘s Flickr feed)
