Some guy had a pretty good business providing websites to over a thousand customers...
It was all good until one unfortunate stroke of the keyboard.
Wow.. What a disaster! But I don't understand how someone could accidently enter the specific code to compleately destroy his entire company, all customer records, and all backups. I never even heard of the little snippet of code, but if I had, I can't comprehend a scenerio of accidently entering it!
"..The problem command was "rm -rf": a basic piece of code that will delete everything it is told to. The “rm” tells the computer to remove; the r deletes everything within a given directory; and the f stands for “force”, telling the computer to ignore the usual warnings that come when deleting files..."
It's a spoof.
Even if this weren't a spoof, it souldn't be right. Deleted data remains on a hard drive until it is written over. So recovery would have been possible. At least I didn't notice that the article stated that the code ALSO ran a secure delete that wrote over all existing data.
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