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IntelMiner on July 5, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: GitHub mirror compromise incident report

GNU rm I believe requires the --no-preserve-root flag these days, to prevent that command from happening by accident

justinsaccount on July 5, 2018 [–]

The shell expands

/*

, not rm.

It expands to /bin /etc /lib and such and is not covered by the sanity check.

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