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I mean it's unlikely but imagine it did happen and something in the script like "rm -rf /some/path" gets truncated to "rm -rf /" & immediately run Even if your

by LIV2 7y ago

I mean it's unlikely but imagine it did happen and something in the script like "rm -rf /some/path" gets truncated to "rm -rf /" & immediately run Even if your connection is TLS secured an MITM attack of causing a connection reset after X bytes could be a viable attack

Carpetsmoker 7y ago
As was pointed out both in the article and the comments here, this is easily addressed by wrapping everything in a function (or subshell, for that matter).