infobyte: dangerous shell commands
infobyte January 3rd, 2008
Recently, there was an announcement on www.ubuntuforums.org warning users against malicious shell commands that might be run accidently by unsuspecting or inexperienced users. I wanted to spread the warning by posting it here.
For the education of Linux users everywhere, here are some common examples of dangerous commands that should raise a bright red flag. Again, these are extremely dangerous and should not be attempted on a computer that has any physical connection to valuable data — many of them will even cause damage from a LiveCD environment.
Tags: development, system admin
