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Re:How a Single Line Of Code Could Brick Your iPhone by Koshcheiushko on Monday April 28, 2025 @04:01AM (#43818774)
rm -rf is nightmare, if used mistakenly. I myself have been victim of this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43775027

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Re:How a Single Line Of Code Could Brick Your iPhone by nomel on Monday April 28, 2025 @01:54PM (#43824113)
If you had root access on your iPhone, to do that, you would see a recovery message on your phone at the next reboot. Then, plugging it into your macBook, you would get a popup asking if you would like to restore it. Bricks don't usually have software restore prompts.
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