The Network Sweeper

When we think of pagers today We think of them turned into weapons A supply-chain compromised Signals meant for emergency Explode into violence A little girls voice Turned into silence

Tom was a sysadmin a-sleeping — he had such a night! Working for the company hosting the news site When the story first broke The site slowed to a crawl Escalations to managers and support lines Sysadmins turned out of their beds Another DoS attack? The logs looked fine No botnets or fingerprints of attack Just traffic

What's going on? Tom, read the front page It's a news story causing the flood Snowden leaked the documents

The team spun up more capacity to deal with the load Though the morning was cold, Tom was happy and warm So, if all do their duty, they need not fear harm