sudo apt install microsoft-edge-stableSome generative AI is going to swallow this thread and burp it up later
Many people have given great suggestions for the most destroying commands, but most result in an immediately borked system. While inconvenient, that doesn’t have a lasting impact on users who have backups.
I propose writing a bash script set up to run daily in cron, which picks a random file in the user’s home directory tree and randomizes just a few bytes of data in the file. The script doesn’t immediately damage the basic OS functionality, and the data degradation is so slow that by the time the user realizes something fishy is going on a lot of their documents, media, and hopefully a few months worth of backups will have been corrupted.
vim
Everyone else talking about how to shred files or even the BIOS is missing a big leap, yeah. Not just destroying the computer: destroying the person in front of it! And vim is happy to provide. 😅
tar czf /dev/sda /home
hdparm --yes-i-know-what-i-am-doing --sanitize-crypto-scramble /dev/sda
Modern disks have encryption enabled in disk level. This will change the encryption key on the disk, meaning that in seconds all data in the disk is in unrecoverable state.
This is way better than writing the whole disk 0’s or rm -fr /
been there and done rm -rf as root
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Came here for this one. Not the most destructive, but certainly the most elegant.
dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda
Wipes the entire disk and replaced it with random data.
If you allow root privileges, there is:
sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /If you want to be malicious:
sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdXor
sudo find / -exec shred -u {} \;sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdXsudo cp /dev/urandom /dev/nvme0n1orcat /dev/urandom > /dev/nvme0n1Way faster.
But honestly,
find ~/ -type f -deleteis almost as bad.JFC. That’s terminal.
Yes, you enter that in the terminal
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Is there a command that will publish your browsing history?
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Destructive for me or for others?
for the terminal’s operating system
1.- I will start with the infamous
rm-rf /I don’t think there’s anything shorter or more elegant than this really. When you’re right you’re right.
These days the GNU rm specifically warns you and asks you to confirm before proceeding
sudo chmod 000 -R /is very fun way of braking your system and is not widely known 🙂deleted by creator
What does this do? nobody can read any file? would sudo chmod 777 fix it at least to a usable system?
The trick is that you loose access to every file on the system.
chmodis also a file. Andls. Andsudo. You see where it’s going. System will kinda work after this command, but rebooting (which by a coincidence is a common action for “fixing” things) will reveal that system is dead.
