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.

  • slazer2au@lemmy.world
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    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.