The problem is that this way, you're giving total control of your machine to a script that curl will download from a website, before you check the script. A be

The problem is that this way, you're giving total control of your machine to a script that curl will download from a website, before you check the script. A better way to try a new software is to download the sources, check them, build/install/run them under a low user with lowest required access to your system. Even better, do this in a virtual machine.