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I'm sorry, but if I see "high security" followed by instructions to do "curl|sh", I have a hard time taking anything else seriously...
by corbet 6y ago
I'm sorry, but if I see "high security" followed by instructions to do "curl|sh", I have a hard time taking anything else seriously...
- buildanduse 6y agoThe curl instructions are a method to download the CLI tool...
- encryptluks2 6y agoThe point being is it is bad security to pipe a script into your shell. Providing a copy and paste to do just that leaves a bad impression.
- buildanduse 6y agoThanks for the feedback...
- xfer 6y agoDownloading a binary from internet and running it doesn't make it a better practice. That's what everyone does though. So no idea why you are complaining about curl and pipes.
- encryptluks2 6y agoThat actually happens a lot less frequently with Linux distros since most users just use their distribution repos to install software.