You say someone could "easily" man-in-the-middle the connection, but is it really that easy? Or likely? (Assuming you're not installing it from a random public

You say someone could "easily" man-in-the-middle the connection, but is it really that easy? Or likely? (Assuming you're not installing it from a random public wifi hotspot.) Even so, assuming you want to be extra careful (you're installing it on a development machine with highly sensitive information), it's not that difficult to clone the repo and edit the install script to install from your local copy of the repo.