Cat accused of wiping US Veteran Affairs server info after jumping on keyboard

Carlos Solís@communities.azkware.net to Not The Onion@lemmy.world – 330 points – VA hospital's IT snafu blamed on cat's keyboard surfing
theregister.com

A four-hour system interruption in September at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri has been attributed to a cat jumping on a technician's keyboard.

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This is about as believable as “the dog ate my homework.”

One time my dog actually did eat my homework and I informed my teacher that he'd never believe the truth.

He said it actually happened to him once too and let me redo it. I'm lucky as fuck.

I do have a fear of something like this happening and do not let my cat into the room when I'm working for this reason though.

I could believe it.

Fuck the cat landed on my keyboard typed sudo rm -rf / --no-peserve-root and then pressed enter.

Yeah John blame it on the cat !!! We all have intrusive thoughts but don't follow them through!!!

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I typed a really long comment in Memmy last night and my daughter bumped my hand, causing the reply window to swipe away and all my work was gone.

So “same,” basically, I guess.

Well, you don't typically type out a whole server config in one go. You shouldn't be manually editing it on a target host to begin with...

Actually you should never be "typing a really long" anything in a browser or an app. They're unreliable. Use a saving editor and when you're done, copy the final over.

Basics, people!

If I fucked up like that and a cat was around, I might tell the same story.

Veterans Health Information System Technology Architecture Imaging system

When you need to throw in some more meaningless words to make an acronym work...