{"id":106,"date":"2019-04-06T19:33:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=106"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"&#039;Deleted-Entire-Company-With-One-Line-of-Code&#039;-Claim-Turned-Out-to-be-Just-a-Hoax---Hoax-Slayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Deleted Entire Company With One Line of Code&#039; Claim Turned Out to be Just a Hoax &#8211; Hoax-Slayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"inner-post-entry\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Outline:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nMessage posted to the ServerFault forum claimed that the poster had deleted all files on his web hosting company&#8217;s servers &#8211; including backups &#8211; when he \u00a0accidentally ran \u00a0a misconfigured script.<br \/>\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HS Net Top Content Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"4870821038\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Brief Analysis:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nThe man later admitted that the post was just a hoax. He told an Italian media outlet that the post was a &#8216;guerrilla marketing operation&#8217; designed to promote his \u00a0server management services startup.<\/p>\n<div class=\"example\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>Example:<\/b><\/span><br \/>\nI run a small hosting provider with more or less 1535 customers and I use Ansible to automate some operations to be run on all servers. Last night I accidentally ran, on all servers, a Bash script with a rm -rf {foo}\/{bar} with those variables undefined due to a bug in the code above this line. All servers got deleted and the offsite backups too because the remote storage was mounted just before by the same script (that is a backup maintenance script).<\/br><\/br> Original Source : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/deleted-entire-company-with-one-line-of-code-claim-turned-out-to-be-just-a-hoax\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/deleted-entire-company-with-one-line-of-code-claim-turned-out-to-be-just-a-hoax\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outline: Message posted to the ServerFault forum claimed that the poster had deleted all files on his web hosting company&#8217;s servers &#8211; including backups &#8211; when he \u00a0accidentally ran \u00a0a misconfigured script. Brief Analysis: The man later admitted that the post was just a hoax. He told an Italian media outlet that the post was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6890,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hoax-inggris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}