Reply to post: Re: Security scan?

Oh SNAP! Old-school '80s Unix hack to smack OSX, iOS, Red Hat?

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Re: Security scan?

Of course .. is also a match to .* so it then recursed up to /home and then down in to all other user's directories!

What system does that??

Thankfully I was sane enough to do this as myself, not root, so no damage was done. But it taught me a valuable lesson!

Yep, generally used filesystems in 2014 are STILL just databases with no transaction support. This is bad.

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