There’s a particularly horrible “joke” floating around out there that claims thatApple AAPL +0.54% has installed secret Bitcoin mining software inside Mac OS X. If you follow the instructions given you can then start your computer mining and you will, obviously, thereby become rich. The problem with this is that the commands you’re given actually wipe the system:
Apple’s so-called secret mining feature, which 4channers claim has been present in Macs since 2009, can be unlocked by opening a terminal command line and running the following command: sudo rm -rf/*, viral images falsely claim.
Read more...Do not try this at home – or anywhere else, come to that. In reality, typing rm -rf/* on a Unix system (including Mac OS X) tells your computer to delete all of your files and folders.
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