Topic: Cyber Squirrel

Gavin McMahon shares a link to CyberSquirrel1.com, a site tracking animal-induced infrastructure outages. One host recounts a story from the era of T1 and ADSL competition where a company added capsicum to wire insulation to deter squirrels. The plan failed when the squirrels developed a taste for the spicy chemical and continued chewing the wires.

Retired General Keith Alexander's warnings about Chinese hackers practicing to blow up American pipelines are met with skepticism. Data suggests that physical interference from squirrels is a far more frequent cause of power grid failures than cyberattacks. The segment highlights the absurdity of "cyber war" rhetoric compared to the mundane reality of infrastructure maintenance and animal-related outages.