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College student with 'visions of writing super-cool scripts' almost wipes out faculty's entire system

Giovani Tapini

Re: Live system - Whilst training

Good story, and from my experience, and indeed a number of the other stories, always check scripts.

They are generally rough and ready and do not include failsafes like parameter checking to ensure they don't target root etc.

I have always told my people to be careful when deploying scripts to "dummy proof" them even for one-off's...

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