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You're worried about security, but you install homebrew?!?

• billyhoffman 11y ago
  even better, let's just execute the random contents of a URL with a Ruby interpreter. Pretty sure curl's -f will suppress any SSL errors you'd receive as someone MITM's you...
  • noondip 11y ago
    I believe you're confusing the -f argument for -k. If you have a better suggestion for installing Homebrew, please send a pull request.
  • acdha 11y ago
    This is a commonly-repeated cargo-cult security trope: if you're going to run arbitrary code from Homebrew, your risk exposure is no different whether you download the installer and run it as two separate actions or one combined command. The option you're thinking of is -k — -f simply tells curl to fail silently on errors, not ignore them: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html#-f http://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html#-f