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Shootout: 'rm -Rf /' vs. 'Format C:'

Posted by timothy on from the as-in-shoot-out-the-lights dept.

skyshock21 writes "There's an article over at hohle.net about what actually happens when you type the commands Format C: in windows versus rm -Rf / in Linux. Very interesting results indeed. Myths are busted, and hilarity ensues."

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  1. Re:...vs Magnet vs Tossage by 1nhuman · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Actually a Dutch (national) prosecutor did something similiar a month ago. He thought his HDD failed and put his whole PC with his garbage on the street.

    Unfortunatly a Taxi driver took the PC with him and managed to boot the machine and found an enormous ammount of very confidentinial information on the HDD. Information about some top crime and fraude cases. The Taxi driver then sold this HDD to a dutch TV crime fighter.

    In the end this got the prosecutor fired. Which I think is sort of unreasonable, since the major issue is the justice departments lack of descent security procedure.

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