VA hospital's IT snafu blamed on cat's keyboard surfing
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US govt confirms outage, leaves feline in a quantum state of uncertainty

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.

  • Osa-Eris-Xero512@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    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.