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From: Joost Kremers on 22 Apr 2010 12:01
Peter Chant wrote:
> Rather old but I saw a reference to a "security hole" in slack...
>
> http://xkcd.com/424/

�mellon�

....

joost(a)slack:~ $ rm -rf /
rm: cannot remove /: Permission denied

seems to have been fixed.


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From: Martin Schmitz on 22 Apr 2010 12:56
Joost Kremers wrote:
> joost(a)slack:~ $ rm -rf /
> rm: cannot remove /: Permission denied
>
> seems to have been fixed.

Try 'cd /; rm -rf *' instead. (Or don't try it, don't know...) ;-)

Martin

From: notbob on 22 Apr 2010 13:07
On 2010-04-22, Martin Schmitz <news(a)rmz.ath.cx> wrote:

> Try 'cd /; rm -rf *' instead. (Or don't try it, don't know...) ;-)

fsck you!

A terrible thing to say in a newsgroup. (you, not me)

nb
From: Peter Chant on 22 Apr 2010 14:25
notbob wrote:

> On 2010-04-22, Martin Schmitz <news(a)rmz.ath.cx> wrote:
>
>> Try 'cd /; rm -rf *' instead. (Or don't try it, don't know...) ;-)
>
> fsck you!
>
> A terrible thing to say in a newsgroup. (you, not me)

Tried it, cd: /: No such file or directory

(http://uni.xkcd.com/)

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