Reply to post: Re: The brute force and ignorance approach

Funny, that: Handy script for wiping directories is capable of wreaking havoc beyond a miscreant's wildest dreams

Down not across

Re: The brute force and ignorance approach

and will use nothing but ed (and, of course, emacs, I mean, everyone uses emacs, right?): this attitude is probably why they succeeded in putting the machine back together at all: it's rather unlikely that something as vast and overcomplicated as vi would have been present on whatever minimal Unix they got up to recover the system.

Erm... I wouldn't put emacs and minimal in the same sentence.

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