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An early version of PyChess had an uninstall script thst would remove the user's entire homedirectory.

by thomasahle 7y ago

minikites 7y ago
Bungie did that with Myth 2: https://youtu.be/-p3a8eGORKY?t=513 https://youtu.be/-p3a8eGORKY?t=513
- gpderetta 7y ago
  Valve did it recently with Steam on linux!
  - jtlienwis 7y ago
    There was once was an operating systems that allowed you to format your entire hard drive when you only intended to format a floppy disk, if you typed format c: instead of format a:. This was called Microsoft Dos 2.x.
    - ztjio 7y ago
      So it did exactly what you requested it to do, no surprises at all. Got it.
      - rmtech 7y ago
        Yeah but there should be a SERIOUS warning preventing that
    - Symbiote 7y ago
      mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1 That's not that much different from a plausible error on Linux, with a USB drive and a hard drive. (At least, the man page for my mkfs.vfat doesn't include any options suggesting it protects against formatting already-formatted or mounted filesystems.)
      - Dylan16807 7y ago
        Yikes, it sure doesn't. For comparison, mkfs.ext2 asks before proceeding if there's already a filesystem, and outright exits if it's mounted.
        Symbiote 7y ago
        Fair enough -- I was assuming based on the lack of documented "force" options that other mkfs' (mkfs.ext4 etc) have.
      - gpm 7y ago
        dd if=/path/to/iso of=/dev/wrong_disk Killed a windows install (which had the first partition on the disk) only a year ago with that one.
        ryall 7y ago
        I lost about 5 hours work by getting the order of input/output parameters wrong in a tar command. No warnings, nothing. "Yes by all means, use a nonexistent file as input to overwrite an existing file That doesn't even have a .tar extension. That's exactly what I wanted"
- pault 7y ago
  Myth was one of my favorite games as a teenager. The dark fantasy atmosphere really captured my imagination, and I still have a little giggle when I think about exploding dwarves. :D
  - dylan604 7y ago
    It was their laugh when things blew up, and their sarcasm that I enjoyed. "Yeah Yeah, over there" "Now what?"
re 7y ago
The iTunes 2 installer would delete hard drives in some cases, if the installation destination contained a space character and the portion before the space matched another drive (e.g. "Seagate" and "Seagate 2"). https://www.wired.com/2001/11/glitch-in-itunes-deletes-drives/ https://www.wired.com/2001/11/glitch-in-itunes-deletes-drive...
RockIslandLine 7y ago
Pool of Radiance would wipe your hard drive on uninstall.

An early version of PyChess had an uninstall script thst would remove the user's entire homedirectory.

minikites 7y ago

Bungie did that with Myth 2: https://youtu.be/-p3a8eGORKY?t=513 https://youtu.be/-p3a8eGORKY?t=513

gpderetta 7y ago
Valve did it recently with Steam on linux!
- jtlienwis 7y ago
  There was once was an operating systems that allowed you to format your entire hard drive when you only intended to format a floppy disk, if you typed format c: instead of format a:. This was called Microsoft Dos 2.x.
  - ztjio 7y ago
    So it did exactly what you requested it to do, no surprises at all. Got it.
    - rmtech 7y ago
      Yeah but there should be a SERIOUS warning preventing that
  - Symbiote 7y ago
    mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1 That's not that much different from a plausible error on Linux, with a USB drive and a hard drive. (At least, the man page for my mkfs.vfat doesn't include any options suggesting it protects against formatting already-formatted or mounted filesystems.)
    - Dylan16807 7y ago
      Yikes, it sure doesn't. For comparison, mkfs.ext2 asks before proceeding if there's already a filesystem, and outright exits if it's mounted.
      - Symbiote 7y ago
        Fair enough -- I was assuming based on the lack of documented "force" options that other mkfs' (mkfs.ext4 etc) have.
    - gpm 7y ago
      dd if=/path/to/iso of=/dev/wrong_disk Killed a windows install (which had the first partition on the disk) only a year ago with that one.
      - ryall 7y ago
        I lost about 5 hours work by getting the order of input/output parameters wrong in a tar command. No warnings, nothing. "Yes by all means, use a nonexistent file as input to overwrite an existing file That doesn't even have a .tar extension. That's exactly what I wanted"
pault 7y ago
Myth was one of my favorite games as a teenager. The dark fantasy atmosphere really captured my imagination, and I still have a little giggle when I think about exploding dwarves. :D
- dylan604 7y ago
  It was their laugh when things blew up, and their sarcasm that I enjoyed. "Yeah Yeah, over there" "Now what?"

re 7y ago

The iTunes 2 installer would delete hard drives in some cases, if the installation destination contained a space character and the portion before the space matched another drive (e.g. "Seagate" and "Seagate 2"). https://www.wired.com/2001/11/glitch-in-itunes-deletes-drives/ https://www.wired.com/2001/11/glitch-in-itunes-deletes-drive...

RockIslandLine 7y ago

Pool of Radiance would wipe your hard drive on uninstall.