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		Koshcheiushko 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How a single line of code could brick your iPhone rm -rf is nightmare, if used mistakenly. I myself have been victim of this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43775027

nomel 8 months ago [–]

If you had root access on your iPhone, to do that, you would see a recovery message on your phone at the next reboot. Then, plugging it into your macBook, you would get a popup asking if you would like to restore it. Bricks don't usually have software restore prompts.

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