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A Linux user's nightmare: the machine was wiped clean with one click
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this post was submitted on 22 Mar 2024
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Trust but verify. It was a text file, it doesn't get much easier to do the second step of that.
... in which case you would have seen that they delete a path referenced by an env var being set earlier.
How likely do you think it would have been to notice, that this env var will turn up empty in your specific case?
A theme that deleted anything would have been enough of a red flag.