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"rm -rf ~" doesn't require root, and would do significant harm.

Neat tech demo to run on a sandboxed VM, but I would strongly recommend against running this on a box you care about.




When you're right you're right. I got nothing in retort - I missed the forest for the trees there.

Good point, well made.


Yeah, I bet than no-one would trust this thing to simply: 'Cleanup the home directory' and it just goes and does 'rm -rf ~/' silently.

I don't see the use-case in something that have a very low trustworthiness and is in fact a solution looking for a problem but creates more problems than it solves.


> I don't see the use-case in something that have a very low trustworthiness and is in fact a solution looking for a problem but creates more problems than it solves.

You just described the majority of tech projects.


Indeed, nearly all of the harm that rm -rf / would do to me, is due to / including ~




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