[meepmorp]

This never would've happened if Steve Jobs were alive.

[saryant]

Apple pushed several broken updates under Jobs. Remember the iTunes update that wiped hard drives?

[EricBart]

I haven't heard of that before now, and now I am super curious. Is there an article that details what happened?

[Someone]

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2001110223300292

[jamessb]

So the root cause of this is similar to that of the broken Bumbeebee upgrade script [1,2]: a typo (missing quotation marks or unintended space) caused far more data than intended (a whole volume or /usr) to be rm'd.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2661209 2: https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commi...

[ARCarr]

I think it was a joke.