dumbass attack

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dumbass attack - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  dumbass attack
   /duhm'as @.tak'/, n.
  
     [Purdue] Notional cause of a novice's mistake made by the
  experienced,
     especially one made while running as root under Unix, e.g., typing
     rm -r * or mkfs on a mounted file system. Compare adger.