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by nulld3v 505 days ago
> That aside, considering once it was discovered how the drive wiper that OP (aaza) claims to have made works, it basically just became a drive wiper that any bad actor could drop into a target system and run, “I intentionally distributed malware that I think, but have no way of verifying, only hurt The Wrong Sort Of People” isn’t just illegal and wrong, it’s stupid.

Imagine copying an entire binary onto a system just so you don't have to run `cat /dev/zero > /dev/sda`

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> Imagine copying an entire binary onto a system just so you don't have to run `cat /dev/zero > /dev/sda`

Imagining script kiddies using stupid software in stupid ways very clearly and easily, also imagining a script kiddie pasting `cat /dev/zero > /dev/sda` into the windows command prompt of the computer he’s controlling with sub7 and getting very frustrated