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eh it's fine. sure, technically speaking you're giving your machine over to whoever wrote that script. they could do anything! but actually, the script is usual
by efficax 4y ago
eh it's fine. sure, technically speaking you're giving your machine over to whoever wrote that script. they could do anything! but actually, the script is usually useful and safe. Like this one.
- lxgr 4y agoYou know that, I know that, but the thousands of people getting desensitized and trained to run random terminal commands like this to "fix their wi-fi" usually don't. The problem isn't even pasting curl output into sh – it's instructing non-technical users to run any terminal commands, in my opinion.
- more_corn 4y agoI’d be happy to point them to the UI for disabling awdl0. Let me know when you find it.
- saagarjha 4y agoI took a peek at the script and I don’t think I want anyone who writes code like that coming anywhere near my machine if I can help it.
- more_corn 4y agoHeh, yeah.