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Elizabeth Lopatto
Server farm experiences party fowl.

This is just a fun little series of Mastodon posts about a security breach at a “highly secure” data center... by a female mallard.

Pepijn@Pepijn@mastodon.onlineI’m on the server floor of a “highly secure data center with 24/7/365 surveillance, direct access control and robust perimeter security”.An actual duck just walked by. 🦆 The panic is absolutely glorious. I think this just became one of the highlights of my life.
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