fat-finger

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
fat-finger
 vt.

   1. To introduce a typo while editing in such a way that the resulting
   manglification of a configuration file does something useless,
   damaging, or wildly unexpected. "NSI fat-fingered their DNS zone file
   and took half the net down again."

   2. More generally, any typo that produces dramatically bad results.
    

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