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He was likely not a person trying to do serious damage more than trying to have fun.
by noobermin 8y ago
He was likely not a person trying to do serious damage more than trying to have fun.
- justinclift 8y agoPutting "rm -rf /*" in every ebuild seems like a pretty clear indication of malicious intent. Can't really picture anyone doing that as a "just trying to have fun" thing.
- giancarlostoro 8y agoforgot --no-preserve-root for it to really take effect properly.
- ryan-c 8y agoI believe rm -rf /* will work without --no-preserve-root
- IntelMiner 8y agoGNU rm I believe requires the --no-preserve-root flag these days, to prevent that command from happening by accident
- justinsaccount 8y agoThe shell expands /* , not rm. It expands to /bin /etc /lib and such and is not covered by the sanity check.
- Buge 8y agoYes, but malicious intent for the purpose of having fun watching the reaction. Not malicious intent for the purpose of personal gain, long term access, or government intelligence.
- Stratoscope 8y agoHaving "fun" by ruining quite a few people's day. Malicious is malicious.
- AlfeG 8y agoLooks like a student joke. I just dont know how many files were deleted in such a jokes during education )
- ISL 8y agoIt's the sort of "fun" that can land the malicious actor in prison.
- emn13 8y agoAlmost anything can land you in prison for years, nowadays. But that doesn't mean there's no difference in impact. Gentoo can count themselves as extraordinarily lucky precisely because there is a difference, between getting hit by a troll rather than a white-collar criminal.
- dalore 8y agoSo chaotic neutral? If going by DnD.
- justinclift 8y agoMore chaotic evil. Personally I'm pretty close to chaotic neutral - varies over time, sometimes true neutral, sometimes chaotic good - and just outright attempting destruction of unknown third parties seems pretty far towards the "evil" side of things.
- dalore 8y agoI would say destroying random things for laughs is chaotic neutral. You do random chaotic things not for pleasure or pain. He isn't doing it for a specific reason but because he can. That's neutral. A chaotic evil would be destroying out of greed or hate.