alt Hacker News> I couldn't for the life of me tell you what dd stands for.
Traditionally, according to folklore? "Delete disk" or "destroy data". (Because it was commonly used to write raw disk blocks.)
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QuantumNomad_ • last Friday at 12:53 AM
Another, similar name it is sometimes jokingly referred to under is “destroyer of disks”.
https://web.archive.org/web/20081206105906/http://www.noah.o...
hoherd • last Friday at 11:27 AM
I always thought it was "disk dump"
I always assumed part of the "data destroyer" folklore was from people flipping if/of by accident and destroying their data :)