• Rustmilian@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Sudo is for getting the necessary perms to write the data to the location after the > operator. Cat is just super fast, faster than dd infact as it’s not actually intended to write to disks, only to stout. We want as much speed as possible to do as much damage as possible by increasing our chances of trigging bugs.