On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 13:04:04 -0500, Mark Lloyd <n...@mail.invalid> wrote:
>On 04/15/2016 02:46 AM, William Unruh wrote:
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>> Yes. The operating system would do it for him.
>> I wonder if he had ever heard of backups?
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>Even a several-months-old backup would be better than nothing.
This whole story is apparently just a big hoax. The only place I can find
that actually states that is an online italian paper that you need to
translate. What saddens me most about this is it shows how the whole web
has become nothing but a giant tabloid as far as news is concerned. Most
all the stories are just reprinting the original hoax story and they don't
fact check it at all.
http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2016/04/15/news/cancella_l_azienda_per_sbaglio_la_disavventura_tecnologica_di_marco_marsala-137693154/?ref=twhr×tamp=1460722285000&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
http://goo.gl/m9yCZe shorter link
'' The command that I mentioned in the article is harmless but it seems that
almost no one has noticed '', responds candidly Marsala when we ask what is
the specific technique that makes the lethal string of code. And he
concludes: '' With the inaccuracies that are there in the online comments I
write a book. '' But why did he do? It is a guerrilla marketing operation, a
'faux pas' invented out of whole cloth just '' to advertise my startup where
we offer outsourced server management services '', this is the author's
version that reveals: '' I am also writing a book on Unix for Dummies Horror
Stories and anyway that fact really happened to someone I know, but years
ago, there was an article in the newspaper ''. If it really happened,
happened '' before 2006 ' ', explains Marsala. Indeed, since if the string
is not added to the specific command -no preserve the Unix system takes care
to warn the user of the correct syntax avoiding disaster. The addition in
question in fact tells the system to behave in a destructive manner. But
according to Marsala's more: '' The Ansible tool with which I destroyed
while 1535 server - adds - prevents these errors. Almost every serious
administrator uses it, but among those who answered no one seems to know,
otherwise they would know that what I have described can not happen ''. Yet
history, between marketing and viral post, he has been around the world by
building around the main character an air of mystery that is inspiring the
irony of the Network. It is lapidary relief received '' hot '' from Marsala
by a Users who like many had taken the problem seriously: '' called an ''
attorney to resolve the problem do not need a technician.