[CoLoCo] UBUNTU SURVIVAL : SAVE THY SELF

[Dave Vanderploeg]

With any luck Ubuntu will have lots of newbs for a long time to come. Its
important to find a way to protect them from mistakes or malicious users.

Someone should be able to write a simple script that checks each post for
dangerous commands, if you enter that thread is starts with a big red
warning box that lets you know some of the code may be dangerous. The box
could offer an explanation like: rm is a command used to delete file, please
only run this command if you are intending to delete files

Dave

On Nov 28, 2007 8:29 AM, David Overcash <funnylookinhat at gmail.com> wrote:

> While this is a real problem they're dealing with on the forums, it's
> mostly an over-reaction to some script-kiddies posting stuff like "sudo rm
> -rf /" and people accidentally running it thinking they were serious.  (It's
> kind of hard to read a sarcastic tone through the forums, so newbies all too
> often just try whatever options are given to them).
>
> -David
>
>
> On Nov 28, 2007 8:12 AM, Michael TheZorch Haney <thezorch at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > phillip tribble wrote:
> > > "I'd like to take a moment of your time to discuss a recent disturbing
> > > trend the staff has been noticing on the forums, and also take this as
> >
> > > an opportunity to raise awareness of this situation through
> > > education." - tfa
> > >
> > > http://ubuntuforums.org/announcement.php?a=54
> > This is a double edged sword, some of those commands (not all) have
> > their uses.  Using DD in conjunction with Gzip (not shown on the
> > website) is a great way to back up floppy images when you point to the
> > block device.  I used to do this on Unix to protect images of floppy
> > disks.  It works with hard drive partitions and CDs also on Unix and
> > Linux.  Some of those other commands are just plain malicious like the
> > Fork Bomb.
> >
> > You know its pretty sad that these people have to try to sabotage
> > people's computers because they use Ubuntu instead of Windows or some
> > other OS.  I'm no hysterical conspiracy theorist, but this is something
> > I could easily see Steve Balmer doing.  Considering the kind of
> > unethical, school yard crap I've seen him pull before I wouldn't be
> > surprised at all if he was behind this.
> >
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