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"rm -rf ~" doesn't require root, and would do significant harm. Neat tech demo to run on a sandboxed VM, but I would strongly recommend against running this on
by isp 4y ago
"rm -rf ~" doesn't require root, and would do significant harm.
Neat tech demo to run on a sandboxed VM, but I would strongly recommend against running this on a box you care about.
- cwillu 4y agoIndeed, nearly all of the harm that rm -rf / would do to me, is due to / including ~
- corobo 4y agoWhen you're right you're right. I got nothing in retort - I missed the forest for the trees there. Good point, well made.
- rvz 4y agoYeah, I bet than no-one would trust this thing to simply: 'Cleanup the home directory' and it just goes and does 'rm -rf ~/' silently. I don't see the use-case in something that have a very low trustworthiness and is in fact a solution looking for a problem but creates more problems than it solves.
- notpachet 4y ago> I don't see the use-case in something that have a very low trustworthiness and is in fact a solution looking for a problem but creates more problems than it solves. You just described the majority of tech projects.