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That Man Who 'Deleted His Entire Company' With a Line of Code? It Was a Hoax (pcworld.com)
An anonymous reader writes: As many Slashdot readers speculated, the story about a man deleting his entire company with a line of code was a hoax. Marco Marsala, the owner of a Web hosting company claimed on a forum earlier this week that he deleted all the data on his company's server. Stack Overflow, which runs the forum, says that the post was a hoax, and pointed to an article on an Italian news outlet, which describes this whole fiasco as a "marketing effort" (in Italian) to promote Marsala's company. "It was just a joke," Marsala told the paper.
"Give us your data we'll delete it"
I suppose they really really believe, there is no such thing as bad publicity.
describes this whole fiasco as a "marketing effort" (in Italian) to promote Marsala's company
He tries to get more business by saying he deleted all his customers' data ? What an idiot. And anyone who remains his customer after this is an even bigger idiot.
describes this whole fiasco as a "marketing effort" to promote Marsala's company
How does telling everyone that you are incompetent "promote" your business?
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
The way most companies do backups there's no point. If backups are a checkmark on the official risk management schedule, you're fucked when you need one. I've seen it. To PROPERLY manage backups means you need to dedicate extra man-hours to making sure they can be restored in a wide variety of circumstances. By actually restoring from backup on occasion. Can you restore after you lose a server and the backup software on it? Can you restore after you've had a virus undetected for a week? For a month? Are your incremental backups too unwieldy to work in real life? Does it actually take a full day to pull the reels and get the data back? Do you have offline copies? How sure are you that your encryption can be decrypted?
Doing backups properly is hard. The story would have had a ring of truth if it included backups that couldn't be restored because the encryption key was the wrong version.
If video games influenced behavior the Pac Man generation would be eating pills and running away from their problems.
Your right. Bad publicity can be good "free publicity" in some cases but this guy basically said "look at me, I'm a moron". You can recover from accidents and other misfortunes but pretending to be an idiot is sort of a lot more difficult.