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A comment on Ask HN: Anonymous person sent proof of SSH access to our production server. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Anonymous person sent proof of SSH access to our ... by zpallin on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @05:27PM (#12176632)
Key here is that you need to figure out how they got in. Then negotiate terms to have them back off. Either way, they're probably being nice about it if they haven't simply 'rm -rf /'d you.
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Re:Ask HN: Anonymous person sent proof of SSH access to our ... by voidlogic on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @07:06PM (#12177163)
> if they haven't simply 'rm -rf /'d you.

Or dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda1 bs=8M

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Re:Ask HN: Anonymous person sent proof of SSH access to our ... by mediaserf on Thursday July 28, 2016 @09:22AM (#12179990)
Side topic: Have you ever done this just for fun on an old system or vm? It actually stops pretty early on once it starts into /dev - removing everything actually takes a little more work.
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