• Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radio
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    1 day ago

    There’s a reason why there’s only privileged write access to /dev/sda.

    If you run unknown software as root on any computer you get to experience first hand the impact of: “fuck around and find out”.

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      2 hours ago

      I mean, you can destroy users’ data by doing the equivalent of:

      find "$HOME" -type f -delete
      

      No idea why they decided to write to /dev/* directly.