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I'm just making predictions. That this will become a malicious advice meme. That lots of people will lose all their files over it. And that microsoft will proba
by Houshalter 10y ago
I'm just making predictions. That this will become a malicious advice meme. That lots of people will lose all their files over it. And that microsoft will probably disable it.
This exact thing happened with system32. And deleting a system file somehow seems much more obviously dangerous than entering a command you don't understand. "rm" looks pretty harmless, and someone could come up with a backronym that even makes it seem sensible.
In fact I wonder if this is the reason pasting into console is disabled, or at least hard to figure out, on Windows.
- mafuy 10y agoWhy do you think this is the reason system32 was protected? I think it was simply protected for the same reason the program files folder was, which is security. Not to prevent user mistakes.
- Houshalter 10y agoNo, deleting system files was only disabled on the user interface. You could still do it with a bat script or the windows api. They also got rid of deltree, which is the Windows equivalent of rm -rf, and was abused in a similar way.