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GianFabien on April 6, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: DOGE's Plan to Rewrite Social Security's Code in M...

   rm -rf /

Won't work on IBM mainframe, its far more secure and complicated than that.

johann8384 on April 6, 2025 [–]

The chainsaw will have the same end result. Can't read shredded drives.

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