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Re:Your USB cable, the spy: the NSA’s catalog of surveillanc... by xnzakg on Friday March 25, 2016 @02:29PM (#11361794)
Why not just rm -rf everything and dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda? That way they won't even be able to see that anything is happening.
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Re:Your USB cable, the spy: the NSA’s catalog of surveillanc... by navbaker on Friday March 25, 2016 @02:49PM (#11361899)
If I'm reading your comment correctly, you're asking why the spies don't rm -rf. That would kill any chance of them coming back to a potentially good source of intelligence.
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