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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.

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  1. Interesting tactic by Crashmarik · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Give us your data we'll delete it"

    I suppose they really really believe, there is no such thing as bad publicity.

    1. Re:Interesting tactic by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Funny

      He's Italian. It would be more like "That's some nice data you got there. It would be a shame if something were to happen to it..."

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  2. Idiot by nukenerd · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Idiot by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 5, Funny

      And anyone who remains his customer after this is an even bigger idiot.

      Perhaps he can become a government contractor...

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    2. Re:Idiot by khasim · · Score: 5, Funny

      Plz help!

      I've accidentally routed all the toilets at work into the hamburger machine. I will be in trouble if anyone finds out how much poop is in the hamburgers.

      Ha ha! It was just my marketing idea. Plz buy my hamburgers.

      Why is no one buying my hamburgers?