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This is brilliant - I imagine they'll have to hope the incessant "rm -rf *" commands don't get spammed, if they are running under root. Looking forward to it.

• dssddsds 11y ago
  wait, you mean "rm -rf /*"?
  • hrnnnnnn 11y ago
    wait, you mean "sudo rm -rf / --no-preserve-root"?
    • sarciszewski 11y ago
      wait, you mean "sudo shred /dev/sda1 &"?
      • DanWaterworth 11y ago
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        • jerf 11y ago
          Random binary dumps aren't what they used to be. You should manually decode some 8-bit ascii by hand: $ python Python 2.7.6 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import random >>> print(''.join([chr(random.randint(32,255)) for x in range(50)]).decode("latin-1")) ¿IBÄõq½¦Áºn}@õÖhzUÌÓQ£m5ë¢ümÇ®=ÇƪLÛHt Now that's quality random binary garbage.
          • beefhash 11y ago
            Medium-quality random binary garbage. randint is an alias for randrange,[1] which produces "slightly uneven distributions" according to the docs before version 3.2.[2] [1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/random.html?highlight=random#random.randint https://docs.python.org/3/library/random.html?highlight=rand... (There's no such hint for the 2.x docs, but I'm guessing it was just added later for clarification) [2] https://docs.python.org/3/library/random.html?highlight=random#random.randrange https://docs.python.org/3/library/random.html?highlight=rand...
        • mncolinlee 11y ago
          Someone needs to write a JAPH of "sudo shred /dev/sda1 &" <Begin obfuscation contest>
      • ryan-c 11y ago
        dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M & would be worse. `shred` is slow.
        • vortico 11y ago
          And dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda & is probably faster than shred, but I could be wrong as it might be doing essentially that.
    • vortico 11y ago
      sudo rm -rf /* is a shorter way to achieve the effect of --no-preserve-root. You're not deleting root, but all the files within it.
      • Natanael_L 11y ago
        > shorter Are you saying you don't have it aliased?
        • vortico 11y ago
          alias sudo="sudo rm -rf /*; sudo" The sneaky sudo.
• monksy 11y ago
  What about fork bombs? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_bomb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_bomb
  • dllthomas 11y ago
    :(){ :&:;};:
• kator 11y ago
  yes > /dev/mem
  • JonnieCache 11y ago
    surely cat /dev/urandom > /dev/mem
    • mcguire 11y ago
      That's much more secure.
• drbawb 11y ago
  The Arch installer starts out as a root shell (on a ramdisk used to bootstrap the system.) ... This will be fun.