How A Steam Bug Deleted Someone’s Entire PC
How A Steam Bug Deleted Someone’s Entire PC
A deeper look into a steam-for-linux GitHub issue (https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671) investigating how a steam script was able to delete the entire contents of someone's root directory. While the direct cause of the rm -rf is fairly obvious, how it was triggered in the or...
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Yeah, I'm sitting next to someone and I don't loudly watch YouTube next to others. Guess I'll never know how Steam did it. ¯\(ツ)/¯
I was in bed next to my sleeping partner and under a cat. Guess I'll I've in ignorance
Deleted entire computer
This is old news that happened a few years ago from what I remember.
Bug has since been fixed.
Ok, thanks for the info. I started freaking out :D
Horrible horrible clickbait image - immediate downvote
It's not clickbait. The Linux version of Steam consisted of a binary, as well as a script called steam.sh which could be used to launch Steam. There actually was a line in that script with a comment above it saying
# Scary!. The script was not supposed to rm -rf the entire hard drive, but if something went wrong, exactly that happened.