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Re:Ethernet over barbed wire by pacaro on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @12:40AM (#15912287)
I was always taught...

"It's the volts wot jolts, its the mills wot kills."

Re:Ethernet over barbed wire by vvanders on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @01:21AM (#15912435)
Yup, the resistance of your skin drops in the rain or heavy perspiration. While it's a nice mitigating factor it's better to just not mess around with anything that can deliver high voltage or high current.
Re:Ethernet over barbed wire by Bartweiss on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @10:17AM (#15914724)
There's a 1999 Darwin Award for this, even. A 9v multimeter killed someone because he broke his skin with the probes and lost the benefit of that resistance. That's pretty much a worst-case scenario, but it's still a vivid reminder that "low voltage" is not "safe".