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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

smbios-token-ctl pick one of the "dangerous - permanent write once" tokens

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

1.- I will start with the infamous rm-rf /

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I don't think there's anything shorter or more elegant than this really. When you're right you're right.

[โ€“] 0_0j 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Alias ls="sudo rm -rf / > /dev/null"

would be hilarious

[โ€“] Lime66 5 points 1 year ago

Sudo pacman -Syu

[โ€“] netburnr 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

shutdown -h now

Sucks when the host is remote and you do a -h instead if a -r

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

hdparm --yes-i-know-what-i-am-doing --sanitize-crypto-scramble /dev/sda

Modern disks have encryption enabled in disk level. This will change the encryption key on the disk, meaning that in seconds all data in the disk is in unrecoverable state.

This is way better than writing the whole disk 0's or rm -fr /

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

been there and done rm -rf as root

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If you have to ask, you're not ready to know.

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