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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 60 points 1 year ago

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!!!

[-] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Deiskos@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

The cat is at fault in this one, though.

[-] netburnr@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

He told the truth, not his fault the media doesn't know there is a other form of cat.

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