But isn't installation via curl more of a PEBKAC issue? You don't have to pipe it to a shell immediately -- pretty sure you could curl the install script and ma

But isn't installation via curl more of a PEBKAC issue? You don't have to pipe it to a shell immediately -- pretty sure you could curl the install script and manually verify it. And isn't the CPU-might-be-spying an invariant? One certainly cannot change how one feels about one's security, but those don't seem to be reasons Linux is inherently more or less secure than Windows...