[sweetjuly]

I always assumed part of the "data destroyer" folklore was from people flipping if/of by accident and destroying their data :)

[opan]

I thought the more common mistake with dd was picking the wrong disk to write to (especially when using /dev/sdc type naming instead of /dev/disk/by-id/whatever naming). Flipping source/dest and overwriting data is a problem I associate with the tar command.