{"id":196,"date":"2019-04-06T19:33:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=196"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"'Deleted-Entire-Company-With-One-Line-of-Code'-Claim-Turned-Out-to-be-Just-a-Hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Deleted Entire Company With One Line of Code&#8217; Claim Turned Out to be Just a Hoax"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\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).<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HSNet Article Center --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"5727909035\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Detailed Analysis:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s the breakdown:<\/p>\n<p>A user posted a \u00a0<a title=\"What to do with the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153rm -rf\" hoax question\" href=\"http:\/\/meta.serverfault.com\/questions\/8696\/what-to-do-with-the-rm-rf-hoax-question\">message on the ServerFault forum<\/a> in the hope of getting assistance with a major problem.  \u00a0Supposedly, the man, who claimed to operate a \u00a0small hosting provider with around \u00a01535 customers, had accidentally deleted all data on the company&#8217;s servers when he ran a Bash script with a bug in the code. The man claimed the buggy code deleted all of his backups as well.<\/p>\n<p>Other ServerFault users tried to assist, although the consensus was that there was not much that the man could do to recover from this monumental error. It was suggested that the man had managed to delete his entire company with just a single line of bad code. The mainstream media soon got hold of the story, and the man&#8217;s supposed plight was <a title=\"Man accidentally 'deletes his entire company' with one line of bad code\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/gadgets-and-tech\/news\/man-accidentally-deletes-his-entire-company-with-one-line-of-bad-code-a6984256.html\">aired in news publications<\/a> around the world.<\/p>\n<p>However, it turns out that the whole story was <a title=\"Man who allegedly deleted his startup with one line of code is a huge troll\" href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/insider\/2016\/04\/17\/turns-dude-didnt-delete-entire-company-single-line-code\/\">just a hoax<\/a>.  \u00a0The man, one \u00a0Marco Marsala, later <a title=\"Cancella l'azienda con un clic e diventa star del web. Ma dice: ''E' solo uno scherzo''\" href=\"http:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/tecnologia\/2016\/04\/15\/news\/cancella_l_azienda_per_sbaglio_la_disavventura_tecnologica_di_marco_marsala-137693154\/?ref=twhr&amp;timestamp=1460722285000&amp;utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;refresh_ce\">told Italian news outlet \u00a0Repubblica<\/a> that the \u00a0supposed company deletion never occurred.  \u00a0He admitted that the story was just a joke. He further explained that it was a &#8216;guerrilla marketing operation&#8217; designed to advertise his \u00a0server management services startup. He also claimed that the code he included in the post was actually harmless but that none of the people who saw the \u00a0post seemed to notice this.<\/p>\n<p>Understandably, admins at ServerFault were not amused \u00a0by the hoax and responded <a title=\"What to do with the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153rm -rf\" hoax question\" href=\"http:\/\/meta.serverfault.com\/questions\/8696\/what-to-do-with-the-rm-rf-hoax-question\">thusly<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>It turns out the the recent question regarding the misuse of rm -rf in Ansible was actually just a hoax in some kind of viral marketing effort. It become quite famous on various media and gathered a large number of views.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Since I don&#8217;t think we should allow ServerFault to be abused in such way, I deleted the question once I learned about the hoax.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It remains to be seen how effective the hoax will be as a marketing ploy for the man&#8217;s company. But, it has certainly gained him a good deal of notoriety.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/deleted-company-hoax-1.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1620\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/deleted-entire-company-with-one-line-of-code-claim-turned-out-to-be-just-a-hoax\/deleted-company-hoax-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/deleted-company-hoax-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,800\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"deleted-company-hoax-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/deleted-company-hoax-1-300x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/deleted-company-hoax-1.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1620\" src=\"https:\/\/hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/deleted-company-hoax-1.jpg\" alt=\"Deleted Company hoax\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/deleted-company-hoax-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/deleted-company-hoax-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/deleted-company-hoax-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/deleted-company-hoax-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/deleted-company-hoax-1-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- HS Net Bottom AdLinks --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-0355887770822260\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"1358951439\"\n     data-ad-format=\"link\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/div>\n<p class=\"date\">Last updated: April 18, 2016<br \/>\nFirst published: April 18, 2016<br \/>\nBy Brett M. Christensen<br \/>\n<a class=\"foot\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.com\/about.shtml\">About Hoax-Slayer<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ref\">References<br \/>\n<a title=\"Man accidentally 'deletes his entire company' with one line of bad code\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/gadgets-and-tech\/news\/man-accidentally-deletes-his-entire-company-with-one-line-of-bad-code-a6984256.html\">Man accidentally &#8216;deletes his entire company&#8217; with one line of bad code<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"What to do with the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153rm -rf\" hoax question\" href=\"http:\/\/meta.serverfault.com\/questions\/8696\/what-to-do-with-the-rm-rf-hoax-question\">What to do with the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153rm -rf&#8221; hoax question<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Man who allegedly deleted his startup with one line of code is a huge troll\" href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/insider\/2016\/04\/17\/turns-dude-didnt-delete-entire-company-single-line-code\/\">Man who allegedly deleted his startup with one line of code is a huge troll<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Cancella l'azienda con un clic e diventa star del web. Ma dice: ''E' solo uno scherzo''\" href=\"http:\/\/www.repubblica.it\/tecnologia\/2016\/04\/15\/news\/cancella_l_azienda_per_sbaglio_la_disavventura_tecnologica_di_marco_marsala-137693154\/?ref=twhr&amp;timestamp=1460722285000&amp;utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;refresh_ce\">Cancella l&#8217;azienda con un clic e diventa star del web. Ma dice: &#8221;E&#8217; solo uno scherzo&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/br> Original Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoax-slayer.net\/deleted-entire-company-with-one-line-of-code-claim-turned-out-to-be-just-a-hoax\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/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-196","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\/196"}],"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=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/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=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}