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by PhantomGremlin 3396 days ago
Ouch. He didn't know the dd command? He couldn't do something like

   dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk1 bs=1m
without consulting Google? He should definitely turn in his hacker badge.

Yes, that's crude, not subtle. I'm always in favor of nuking from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.