https://lwn.net/Articles/1013127/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "Quotes of the week — squirrel security". en-us Sat, 01 Nov 2025 18:19:45 +0000 Sat, 01 Nov 2025 18:19:45 +0000 https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification lwn@lwn.net https://lwn.net/Articles/1013295/ https://lwn.net/Articles/1013295/ ballombe <div class="FormattedComment"> What confuse me is that, in a software analogy, the German Shepherd, by right, should represent the LSM.<br> </div> Fri, 07 Mar 2025 09:11:14 +0000 https://lwn.net/Articles/1013176/ https://lwn.net/Articles/1013176/ smoogen <div class="FormattedComment"> Having observed squirrels over the many years.. the eating of voles isn't that surprising. I expect that 'Rocky' has been going up in the tree for years and sometimes snacking on the odd bird egg or even youngling bird... that might be enough for when 'Rocky2' goes and eats the shepherd.. it isn't seen as an anomaly. <br> <p> Which I think might be where observability has fallen down in the past.. the programmer only thinks the squirrel is going up and eating nuts, but every now and then it has not. Then boom one day it goes hog wild and it isn't clear if it is a bug or a security incident.. but in either case Max the German Shepherd is a goner. <br> </div> Thu, 06 Mar 2025 11:58:14 +0000