Hoax the story of Marsala: A few days ago we published the tragic but funny story of Marco Marsala, who allegedly deleted his entire company with a wrong code line last week.
The absolute case of the bad luck of the computing - or a carelessness, as reported by some commentators.
But not everything is as it seems. In other words: another one scam (hoax) on the internet.
Speaking in her Italian version Republic, Marsala explained that history was a viral way of advertising his company.
Marsala even mentions that the story actually happened, someone deleted his company with a wrong line of code "in 2006."
In the story first published by The Independent, Marsala posted on the Server Fault forum a plea for help as he deleted his company with the “rm -rf” command using Ansible.
As explained by the authoritative Independent: "rm" tells the computer to delete r deletes everything in a specific directory and f means "force", which tells the computer to ignore the usual warnings that come with deleting files.
Server Fault commentators then reported the bad news: there was no way to recover the files.
But after the hoax was revealed, Marsala said commenters forgot that Ansible actually blocks Mistakes on such a large scale, and that such a thing "can't happen" with this tool.
“Almost every serious manager does uses,” Marsala reported.
Moral lesson of history? As always, do not believe everything you read on the internet.