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2016-04-16 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Man accidentally 'deletes his entire company' with one line of bad code

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Posted by Fred 2016-04-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 You hear legends and rumors of this sort of thing. This is the first time I have seen a documented case of the awesome power of the mis-applied 'rm -rf'

Posted by Nguard 2016-04-16 01:38|| 2016-04-16 01:38|| Front Page Top

#2 LOL Users, bet it was the pimply-faced- youth what done it.

/BOFH

Posted by Shipman 2016-04-16 06:56|| 2016-04-16 06:56|| Front Page Top

#3 It's a hoax.

Posted by Glenmore 2016-04-16 07:00|| 2016-04-16 07:00|| Front Page Top

#4 Hell its Saturday, why not? BOFH 2nd Number

"... Modify the user's password minimum from 6 to 32 letters, give the password a 1 day lifetime, set it so that they HAVE to use the password generate utility when they change their password (so their password will always be something that looks like vaguely pronouncable line-noise), add a secondary password with the same as the above, then redefine their CLI tables so that the only command that works is DELETE, and all other commands point to it."

Beautiful. Shit I'm good.

He calls back.

"MY FILES ARE GONE!", he screams, panicking.

"Did you have a backup?", I ask, as sweet as pie.

"But that's what you people are supposed to do!", he sobs.

"Yeah, well we did - but then we switched to those 8mm tapes, and they're the same size as the ones in my video camera, so I've been using them to tape the neighbor's sex romps..."

I hear the revolver go off, but what the hell, it's 5pm, and not my problem...

Posted by Shipman 2016-04-16 07:07|| 2016-04-16 07:07|| Front Page Top

#5 When is the State Department FBI CIA AND NSA going to hire that dude to cover their asses!

Posted by Unearong Whomort2812 2016-04-16 07:36|| 2016-04-16 07:36|| Front Page Top

#6 H.Clinton - where was that dumbass when I needed him?

Well, Hill, he wasn't enrolled in the Crony Connection Cabal you all so rely upon.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-04-16 08:26|| 2016-04-16 08:26|| Front Page Top

#7 According to PC World, it's a hoax.

Posted by trailing wife 2016-04-16 09:14|| 2016-04-16 09:14|| Front Page Top

#8 In 5 years there's going to be some hacker movie called "RM -RF" staring Nicholas Cage.

Posted by Charles 2016-04-16 09:18|| 2016-04-16 09:18|| Front Page Top

#9 Safe bet: Nicholas Cage stars in everything...

Posted by Steve White 2016-04-16 10:01|| 2016-04-16 10:01|| Front Page Top

#10 I see lawsuits in his future...

Sounds like he used a tool to run the same command on all his servers... And the journalist is an idiot.

I've seen something similar. A customer had just upgraded to a new Tandem nonstop system and the field engineer started taking down the old system. The first thing he started as to 'relabel' (read reformat) all the disks. Unfortunately he was working across the network on the new production system. Oops!

Posted by CrazyFool 2016-04-16 10:30|| 2016-04-16 10:30|| Front Page Top

#11 The most surprising thing might be that so many people believed him, including those on a forum for technology experts.

That's because it's every tech's nightmare.

Posted by Fred 2016-04-16 14:48|| 2016-04-16 14:48|| Front Page Top

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