A KDE theme just wiped out a user's data

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A Reminder to Backup All Important Data

I just watched a video about how, many years ago, Steam deleted someone’s entire computer, including an external backup drive that was plugged in, due to a poorly written Bash script. The script in question contained this (including the ominous comment): # Scary! rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"* Earlier in the script, the variable STEAMROOT was set using some cd and pwd nonsense, which under unforeseen circumstances failed and left the variable empty, causing rm -rf / to execute thus destroying all user …