Tech Company Owner Wiped Out His Own Business With Single Line of Code

Tech Company Owner Wiped Out His Own Business With Single Line of Code
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Likely, we’ve all been there---looking for that important file on your computer only realizing we’ve deleted it by mistake. But Marco Marsala took this common accident to a whole new level.

He said he runs a small web hosting company, managing websites for over 1,500 clients. Last week he ran a piece of code to perform some automated tasks on his servers and, by mistake, included a bungled piece of code that wiped out all the data of his systems, including his clients’ data, according to his post on ServerFault tech forum, where he was asking for help.

The liable code ... basically told the computer running a Linux operating system to delete everything and don't ask any questions.
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Petr Svab is a reporter covering New York. Previously, he covered national topics including politics, economy, education, and law enforcement.
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