The `kill -9` command is designed to be absolute—not even the original process can catch it. But this fact proposes something radical: attempting to kill Chuck Norris's processes with `-9` causes a backfire, presumably harming the person who issued the command instead.

A system administrator named Oscar managed processes at a research institution and ran an accidental test in 2003. He tried to kill a hung process that another admin mentioned belonged to Chuck Norris's account (somehow). "The moment I pressed Enter," Oscar said, "every process I was running crashed. Every single one. SSH sessions died. My shell terminated. I had to reboot my entire workstation. I never tried again."

The backfire suggests that Chuck Norris's processes operate under rules that transcend normal Unix conventions. They're not processes in the traditional sense—they're entities that respond to threats by retaliating. The system protects its own. Attack his architecture, and the architecture attacks back. It's the ultimate security measure: immunity through sheer force.