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Old 12-30-2021, 10:01 AM   #4730
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Current UK plugs have the live and neutral half wrapped in plastic precisely so that this is impossible. By the time the pins make contact inside the socket, no live bare metal is outside the socket.

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But back on topic, it seems that Alexa's web scraping routines picked up something dangerous. It's hard/impossible to do such stuff safely at scale.

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