Wilshire@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoMega hack shuts down Putin’s online state mediawww.politico.euexternal-linkmessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up1351arrow-down11
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minus-squareZeroCool@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up75·edit-21 month 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-up48·1 month 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-up28·1 month 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-up28·1 month 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-up12·1 month agorm: invalid option -- 'F' n00bs
minus-squareskillissuer@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·1 month agoi think the RF here stands for russian federation
minus-squareℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·edit-21 month agoYeah, just like you can type sudo rm -fr / and it erases the French.
minus-squareMayor Poopington@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agoEveryone makes that mistake at some point
minus-squareℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 month 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.