It's not even a valid C program, not to mention that it isn't a shell command I found the earliest mention of this here, as part of a fake sudo exploit in 2005

It's not even a valid C program, not to mention that it isn't a shell command I found the earliest mention of this here, as part of a fake sudo exploit in 2005: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2005/Aug/39 http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2005/Aug/39 shoddy article. [edit: as pointed out by hkolk, the exploit is fake and runs rm -rf]