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Circuit Chuckles · Daily comic

Root Cause

Published Wednesday, 23 September 2026 · By Security.io

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Rusty kneels beside a potted plant with a trowel and magnifying glass, insisting he is investigating the root cause of a system outage while Glitch protests.

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During an outage, Rusty announces he is already on the root cause and begins digging up the roots of a potted plant.

Transcript

Accessible reading order
  1. Panel 1 — Rusty: I am already on the root cause.
  2. Panel 2 — Glitch: That is a potted plant.
  3. Panel 3 — Rusty: Every incident starts somewhere.
  4. Panel 4 — Rusty: This root has motive.