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Man accidentally deletes his entire company with one line of bad code
A man appears to have deleted his entire company with one mistaken piece of code. By accidentally telling his computer to delete everything in his servers, hosting provider Marco Marsala has seemingly removed all trace of his company and the websites that he looks after for his customers. Mr Marsala wrote on a forum for server experts called Server Fault that he was now stuck after having accidentally run destructive code on his own computers.
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If you delete all your files by running rm -rf, and also don't have a backup, you're too stupid to run any business that relies on computers. Or any business, period.
This strikes me as slightly bogus. That said, If anyone could manage to setup a business system so one line of code could kill it all, his or her business has a lot more trouble than lousy programming.
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