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I've known of people that do such things like switching keycaps around or painting over the legends so that other who don't touch-type very well will leave their equipment alone in the workplace.
I read something several years ago about a user who reported that she couldn't login on her computer if she was standing up, but it worked OK when she was sitting down. The tech support guy thought she was crazy, but he went to see what was happening. Sure enough, if she was sitting down everything was fine, but when she was standing up she always got "invalid password" when she tried to login. He watched her carefully a few times and finally realized what had happened. At some point she had dropped her keyboard and a few keycaps had popped off. She'd put them back on and gotten a couple of them switched. Since she was a touch typist, she hit all the correct keys when she was sitting down. But when she was standing up she couldn't touch-type and was looking at the keyboard to see where the keys were, and one of the letters in her password had the keycap in the wrong place, so she was hitting the wrong key.
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A freind of mine was fixing his HP-67 and dropped the "A" key. His dog promptly jumped up and gobbled down the key. Rather than follow around the dog and sift through the doggie output, I got him a replacement key from another friend. A couple of months later, the original key turned up in the dog's bed.