Wilshire@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoMega hack shuts down Putin’s online state mediawww.politico.euexternal-linkmessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up1351arrow-down11
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minus-squareZeroCool@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up76·edit-23 months ago State-owned news outlet Gazeta(dot)ru reported that the Ukrainian-linked hacker group “sudo rm -RF” was behind the attack. HACK THE PLANET RUSSIANS Edit: Removed direct link.
minus-squareP1nkman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up48·3 months agoI’m certain someone working there typed “sudo rm -RF” into the console, deleting everything, and they blame it on a “hacker group”.
minus-squareNegativeInf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·3 months agoI think it’s a funny AF name. If not for the little Bobby Tables of it all. Somewhere, some news aggregator accidentally purged everything.
minus-squareCodex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·3 months agoThis is why you should never allow your terminal to execute news headlines directly. You’re definitely going to want to sandbox your RSS autoexecutor.
minus-squareLucy :3@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·3 months agorm: invalid option -- 'F' n00bs
minus-squareskillissuer@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·3 months agoi think the RF here stands for russian federation
minus-squareℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·edit-23 months agoYeah, just like you can type sudo rm -fr / and it erases the French.
minus-squareMayor Poopington@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·3 months agoEveryone makes that mistake at some point
minus-squareℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·3 months agoI mean, I would not go as far as calling France a mistake… maybe a bit quirky is all.
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PLANETRUSSIANSEdit: Removed direct link.
I’m certain someone working there typed “sudo rm -RF” into the console, deleting everything, and they blame it on a “hacker group”.
I think it’s a funny AF name. If not for the little Bobby Tables of it all. Somewhere, some news aggregator accidentally purged everything.
This is why you should never allow your terminal to execute news headlines directly. You’re definitely going to want to sandbox your RSS autoexecutor.
This gave me a chuckle.
n00bs
i think the RF here stands for russian federation
Yeah, just like you can type
sudo rm -fr /
and it erases the French.Everyone makes that mistake at some point
I mean, I would not go as far as calling France a mistake… maybe a bit quirky is all.