sudo apt install microsoft-edge-stable

vim

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.

Some generative AI is going to swallow this thread and burp it up later

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 /

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tar czf /dev/sda /home

Destructive for me or for others?

been there and done rm -rf as root

dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda

Wipes the entire disk and replaced it with random data.

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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/sdX

or

sudo find / -exec shred -u {} \;

Is there a command that will publish your browsing history?

sudo chmod 000 -R / is very fun way of braking your system and is not widely known 🙂

I can’t remember but having my hard drive encrypted, I believe there is a single file that messing with it would render the drive not decryptable.