[dns-operations] Recent "rm -rf" article references a hoax

[Brett]

Well 123-reg seem to be having a bad week in a similar way :)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36072240

Further reports have said they have started to tell customers that
they can't get their data back and are giving away 6 months free
hosting because of it.

Brett

On 15 April 2016 at 20:51, Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill at hallambaker.com> wrote:
> I couldn't understand why it was bing shared so widely. There are
> plenty of folk who know how to recover files from a UNIX file system.
>
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 11:32 AM, Andrew Boling <aboling at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Paul Vixie <paul at redbarn.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> see also:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/man-accidentally-deletes-his-entire-company-with-one-line-of-bad-code-a6984256.html
>>>
>>
>> Somewhat off-topic, somewhat not because it made its way into conversations
>> here, but the Serverfault Q&A that the above article is referencing has been
>> identified as a hoax and removed.
>>
>> (Italian)
>> http://www.repubblica.it/tecnologia/2016/04/15/news/cancella_l_azienda_per_sbaglio_la_disavventura_tecnologica_di_marco_marsala-137693154/
>>
>> http://meta.serverfault.com/questions/8696/what-to-do-with-the-rm-rf-hoax-question
>>
>>
>>
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Brett