dd's reputation comes from someone calling it "disk destroyer" a long time ago. This is one in a long and storied line of such articles that predate the web:

dd's reputation comes from someone calling it "disk destroyer" a long time ago. This is one in a long and storied line of such articles that predate the web: https://cloudnull.io/2011/12/dd-and-the-mighty-disk-destroyer-or-duplicator/ https://cloudnull.io/2011/12/dd-and-the-mighty-disk-destroye...