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- Accidental dropped keyboard command issuance probability
- My wireless Macintosh keyboard, which was talking to my laptop, fell off my desk at home, and as it went down and bumped against the drawer knobs and I grabbed at it, several keys were accidentally pressed (and a Shift key actually came off). In the active window on the laptop at the time was a live SSH connection to the Linux machine on my desk up at the UCSC campus, so everything that was accidentally typed was interpreted as a sentence in the language of the tcsh Unix shell language on my Linux box two miles away. And as fate would have it, the keys that were hit as the keyboard clattered to the floor spelled out a fully grammatical sentence of that language, meaning that an actual executable command was issued to the operating system of my desktop machine, and was executed. What are the chances of that?
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