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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

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.