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A warning on a new destructive 'trojan horse'
Only working solution, that Apple could do, would be to implement a very low-level checking of filesys calls. For example, the occasions that 'rm -rf ~' or 'rm -rf /' are -really- needed, are very few indeed. Apple could implement a way to prevent this altogether, and make new commands to achieve them that would -always- ask confirmation, like editing the 'sudoers' file can not be done with vi, or pico or anything else but the 'visudo' command. Make the filesystem (or whatever is low level enough) to refuse to delete '~' or '/' without the use of the special commands, that always would ask confirmation. Or then make two passwords, one 'regular', the other 'security' and everytime the filesystem/kernel/whatever notices that '~' or '/' is about to be deleted, it would prompt for the 'security' password - that way the user always would know.
A warning on a new destructive 'trojan horse'
That's not a bad idea (the / part would have to only be / w/ nothing after it). It doesn't stop whole folders getting whiped out, but it's still the best suggestion I've seen here.
A warning on a new destructive 'trojan horse'
And to add to this myself, Apple could do a list of things in addition to '/' and '~' that you would not want to delete, such as '~/Library' and stuff. |
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