Cat accused of wiping US Veteran Affairs server info after jumping on keyboard - eviltoast

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.

  • Knusper@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    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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      1 year ago

      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!