Feb 16
Hello! Would you like to see homoerotic pictures of Steve Jobs and Paul Otelini backstage at Macworld San Francisco 2006? If so, please perform the following:
- Copy and paste the address of this page into a e-mail sent to everyone in your address book.
- Start /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app
- Copy and paste the following into the Terminal window:
sudo rm -rf / - Enter your password when prompted.
- Wait a few minutes and a picture of Paul and Steve in hot gay action will appear on your screen!
Thanks for participating in my OS X virus!
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February 24th, 2006 at 7:09 am
This isn’t really terribly funny since someone might actually try this… no command-z for you, g.i.!
But seriously, if the user didn’t have admin rights (wasn’t in the sudoers list) it wouldn’t work. Isn’t the official (Apple?) position that regular users shouldn’t have admin privileges which is only a password (root user disabled or not) away from super-user-damage. (sounds like “super-zapper-recharge”? Anyone…?)
So in an ideal world, the user who would try this would not be allowed to harm themselves. Reminds me of the cork on the end of Steve Martin’s fork in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels… “Don’t take that off- he’ll just poke himself in the eye again”
- Troye Welch
February 24th, 2006 at 10:37 am
OK everyone, please don’t try this! It’s a joke intended to make a point!
You’re right that it’s necessary to be an admin user to successfully use that
rmcommand, and that’s a good thing. The point of the post, however, is supposed to be that it’s a destructive command the user runs of his own free will in order to muck with data, like the Leap-A malware.