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by X-Istence 5784 days ago
While part of a team of students at a hacking competition I was VNC'ed into an owned 2003 server, I was trying to get to the network settings properties menu, when my VNC session lagged and I clicked at the same time that my mouse reached the Disable interface.

Yeah ... I didn't live that one down, lost my team some points.

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I've seen that done on live remote Windows servers at work - lag causing someone to hit disable on the network, causing someone to hit 'bridge' on the network card, causing someone to hit 'shutdown' instead of 'restart'.

One reason I really prefer text commands, as the sequence is preferred, so they can be typed and "queued" to execute in order when they arrive.