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Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure
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this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2025
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Sometime that code will expire and you need to alternate to sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda bs=4M. Works most of the time for me.
I love this, but it must take forever to overwrite an entire drive w/random data. You're essentially running DBAN at that point, no?
Hmm I guess for optimum performance, best practice would be to
sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /; sudo fstrim -av; sudo rebootIndeed. We don't want to preserve the "Radically Overused Obsolete Term" Database