alt Hacker News> It's as much "active destruction" as telling someone to eff themselves.
I'm no lawyer.. but this seems relevant: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030
> knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer.
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queenkjuul • today at 10:56 AM
If someone else installs it, the author didn't knowingly cause the transmission to the protected computer, the installer did
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if someone told you to `rm -rf --no-preserve-root`, and you did it without even checking what the command does. is it their fault or yours?