> curl into sh is just as safe as any other software installation mechanism It most certainly is not. Grabbing random code from some site is not the same as in

> curl into sh is just as safe as any other software installation mechanism It most certainly is not. Grabbing random code from some site is not the same as installing a package from a known repository which has been tested and inspected by a maintainer. Of course the latter isn't perfect, but it is way more assurance than the none whatsoever of a random script from an unknown source.