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

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VA hospital's IT snafu blamed on cat's keyboard surfing
theregister.com

Cat accused of wiping US Veteran Affairs server info after jumping on keyboard::US govt confirms outage, leaves feline in a quantum state of uncertainty

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You can blame a cat or dog approximately once per 5 years of employment. Nice save!

Randy you’ll never believe it. The cat did it again, yep this time it’s the IRS servers. Whole thing is down and can’t be recovered. Don’t worry I have told the cat on no uncertain terms that 3 or 4 more times and I’m going to start getting pretty angry about this.

Why you should write rm /path/to/dir -rf ; and not rm -rf /[cat jumps here]

Other than cat jumping, you can just accidentally hit enter all by yourself, it's a well-developed reflex for all of us.

I donmt like where this is going. Legit, animals are considered peoperty and this cat has United States of America v. Random cat who had and maintains no idea what the fuck's going on written all over it.

Sad.

Edit: on second thought, let me read around some more, I had this "odd" impulse that this guy might be worse for the cat so I for one welcome our...ya I'm gettin' way too tired and informed of this stuff

They shouldn’t allow pets in the office anyway