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0xbadcafebee
on June 6, 2012
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6.5 Million LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked
Alternative and more dramatic method of preventing it being written to your bash history:
kill -9 $$
bmnbug
on June 6, 2012
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kill -9 -1 is better than kill -9 $$
alanh
on June 7, 2012
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How so?
mcpherrinm
on June 7, 2012
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That post was a troll. -1 is a special PID: It indicates that all processes that you can kill should be.
Kill -9 -1 as root is a surefire way to make a system stop doing anything, fast.
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