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Cyber Squirrel 1 Disrupting at the highest levels
- danblick 11y agoIt's a shame they lose so many good agents out in the field.
- joezydeco 11y agoThere's one that's constantly at my back door asking for some food scraps or nuts, but I know it's really trying to proximity-sniff out my Wifi password.
- bitwize 11y agoHe may also be trying to distract the attack dogs.
- Apocryphon 11y agoMany died to bring us this information.
- patio11 11y agoBest paragraph ever about squirrels, courtesy of http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/opinion/sunday/squirrel-power.html http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/opinion/sunday/squirrel-po... : Matthew Olearczyk, a program manager with the Electric Power Research Institute, explains that typically a squirrel will cause a blackout by scampering across electrical equipment and touching simultaneously both an energized component, like one of the cylindrical transformers at the top of a utility pole, and a grounded piece of equipment. The squirrel completes the circuit, generating an arc. There is an instantaneous flash of blue light. At its center is the squirrel, combusting.
- sp332 11y agoI've had this happen outside my house twice, when it was raining. The squirrel looked kinda crispy and would send up a puff of smoke occasionally.
- sschueller 11y agoLol, I was just at a tour of the new underground power distribution building in Zürich. Squirrels were mentioned and this new underground building tries to prevent "squirrel incidents" in the future. Some photos I took: https://goo.gl/photos/dLpTWm9m8Ggdirzn9 https://goo.gl/photos/dLpTWm9m8Ggdirzn9
- goatforce5 11y agoAre you sure you want these photos online where squirrels could find them and plan their attacks?
- baseten 11y agothose are the same bastards eating my pumpkins!
- larrik 11y agoI couldn't find the Jellyfish incident, I'm curious how that one went down.
- gk1 11y agoIf anyone else is confused by this (as I was), click any pin on the map and you'll get it.
- snowwrestler 11y agoWell this explains the controversial "warrantless squirrel tracking provision" in CISA.
- panglott 11y agoWhat has America done to the squirrels?
- Allegrippus 11y agoDue to ever increasing development, squirrels can no longer travel the nation by jumping between successive trees as their ancestors once did. Today it involves much more work and danger: crawling down, scampering across open ground, climbing back up, running the wires, and dealing with those high voltage pole pigs. Actually, squirrels have been mad as hell at us for many years now. Thus far they haven't overtaken us because (a) we've appeased them somewhat by tossing them peanuts and filling bird feeders with sunflower seed, and (b) they haven't quite mastered the "opposable thumb" thing just yet. But they are known for adaptability and persistence, and there are reports they are making major advances with (b) by secretly observing our finesse at eating chicken wings at outdoor picnics and festivals. Really, it's only a matter of who gets there first: squirrels and thumbs, dogs and doorknobs, cows and upright walking, or cats figuring out the internet backbone. We'll soon be paying homage to our new overlords, and they won't even be from an alien planet.
- idlewords 11y agoOne of these brave agents chewed through some PBX equipment when I was in college, and that's how we found out that the phone system's failure mode was to emit a sustained, wraith-like shriek, very similar to the sound we students made as it woke everyone up at 2 AM.
- unics 11y agoThey are organized and they have bootcamps! https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=squirrel+obstacle+course+mission+impossible https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=squirrel+obstac...
- DKnoll 11y agoThis is my favourite vendor email I have ever received: The datacenter (Toronto) will be performing emergency maintenance at 3:30 pm EDT today afternoon due to raccoon in the electric system.
- toddsiegel 11y agoI am pretty sure then that my cat is part of an anti-cyber-squirrel team. She takes down about four a year.