*THE* classic Unix horror story

lug.wsu.edu — Try this in windows! -This classic article from Mario Wolczko first appeared on Usenet in 1986. Have you ever left your terminal logged in, only to find when you came back to it that a (supposed) friend had typed "rm -rf ~/*" and was hovering over the keyboard with threats along the lines of "lend me a fiver 'til Thursday, or I hit return"?