protecting against rm -rf

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✔ ~
10:04 $ cd Downloads/
✔ ~/Downloads
10:04 $ mkdir temp
✔ ~/Downloads
10:04 $ cd temp/
✔ ~/Downloads/temp
10:04 $ ls
✘-1 ~/Downloads/temp
10:04 $ touch -- -@
✔ ~/Downloads/temp
10:04 $ ls
total 0
-rw-r--r--  1 a  staff     0B Apr 14 10:04 -@
✔ ~/Downloads/temp
10:04 $ touch {1..4}
✔ ~/Downloads/temp
10:04 $ ls
total 0
-rw-r--r--  1 a  staff     0B Apr 14 10:04 -@
-rw-r--r--  1 a  staff     0B Apr 14 10:04 1
-rw-r--r--  1 a  staff     0B Apr 14 10:04 2
-rw-r--r--  1 a  staff     0B Apr 14 10:04 3
-rw-r--r--  1 a  staff     0B Apr 14 10:04 4
✔ ~/Downloads/temp
10:04 $ rm -rf *
rm: invalid option -- '@'
Try 'rm ./-@' to remove the file ‘-@’.
Try 'rm --help' for more information.