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Cat accused of wiping US Veteran Affairs server info after jumping on keyboard(www.theregister.com)

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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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ransomwarelettuce@lemmy.world
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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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MeanEYE@lemmy.world
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I mean for all we know it might have been cat /dev/random > /var/lib/mysql/whatever.

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