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The theme contained rm -rf, but claims it wasn't malicious intent...I assume rm -rf for cleanup, but seems like it should have a apecific path other than /
When I worked at Pixar long ago an intern had a cron job that was intended to clean up his nightly build and ended up deleting everything on the network share for everyone!
Fortunately there were back-ups and it was fine, but that day was really hilariously annoying while they tracked down things disappearing.
Was that the infamous Toy Story 2 incident?
Amusingly enough, no.
This was after Toy Story 3 released but before Brave.