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Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:53:43 -0800
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On 01/16/2013 07:24 AM, Tim Prince wrote:
> I still remember the occasion 15 years ago when I entered "rsh tim" 
> and found myself logged in as the head of corporate IT with root 
> privilege.
Did you do "rm -rf /"?

I remember going to Frys and seeing a mac with a bash shell window 
logged in as root. Guess what I did...

Never leave a root bash shell open to the public...
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Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
As I always say "I never repeat myself"


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