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minus-squareOnno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radiolinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agoThere’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”.
minus-squareDumhuvud@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-29 hours agoI mean, you can destroy users’ data by doing the equivalent of: find "$HOME" -type f -delete No idea why they decided to write to /dev/* directly.
There’s a reason why there’s only privileged write access to /dev/sda.
If you run unknown software as root on any computer you get to experience first hand the impact of: “fuck around and find out”.
I mean, you can destroy users’ data by doing the equivalent of:
find "$HOME" -type f -deleteNo idea why they decided to write to
/dev/*directly.