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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      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.

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      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.

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      Yeah, anybody in IT knows this is bullshit. I guarantee these people had several holes in their processes, didn’t properly back things up, and have been accidentally losing data for YEARS. Somebody recently noticed it, so they decided to blame a cat.

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      I’d wager on manager that decided to do something on the server.

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    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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      Many of your points are good, but 4 is pretty weak. I have left my personal laptop for 20 minutes to come back and find that the cat has put me into airplane mode, opened a hexadecimal calculator I didn’t know I had, written a complain to Microsoft that only didn’t send because of airplane mode (error popup and all), opened my family recipes, edited my family recipes to include actual text-symbol emojis among other garbage, and recorded the whole thing as a… Gamer Clip???

      She does this routinely.

      I disable my work laptop keyboard before I even LOOK away from it, I don’t want to find out how much damage she could push to production.

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        I taught my cats not to go on the keyboard. Took a while, but now two of them are very carefully stepping around it, and the third kinda does, but easily forgets when she gets excited.

        Just consistently moving their paws off the keyboard when they try and go there, use “bad” voice, and putting them on floor if they continue. And “a while” was almost a year.

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          I love cats and would like to have one but I don’t because I also like to not have my things moved around or messed with at the whim of a bored animal.

          I wish there was a way to have cat friends rather than pets, so they could come visit and I could let them in for a bit if it’s a good time and then they go off and do their cat things elsewhere.

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      You talking about government systems here. Most were built before safeguards were a thing.

      My wife works for a tax authority and she still has to use a green text on black background terminal with keyboard only interaction to review people’s taxes. Being one keystroke away from blowing away a database is not surprising.

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      I always open up files in Vim because I can work with text much better than cat or less or whatever else.

      But also I use git. For everything that is important.

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      This could be a case of the reporting not being 100% accurate though. I could easily see some cat-like typing going unnoticed in the wrong kind of config file mangling a config for a critical process and requiring recovering a server (or, say, a remote firewall >_>) from backup.

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      Guy was changing config, got up to get coffee, cat walked across keyboard, tech didn’t notice what the cat did and saved and reloaded?

      Or config was in some gui and not from a bash terminal?

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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.

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      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…

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        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!

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    Veterans Health Information System Technology Architecture Imaging system

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