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Yeah, you could always just curl it first and see what it’s going to do.

• posnet 3y ago
  It can be detected if your adversaries are clever enough: https://lukespademan.com/blog/the-dangers-of-curlbash/ https://lukespademan.com/blog/the-dangers-of-curlbash/
  • thinkmassive 3y ago
    Congrats, you just defeated the attack by manually downloading the script before running it!
  • post- 3y ago
    Tbh, I’m put on more on alert by the spelling errors in the linked post than I am by the ostensible threat of a server timing my requests in order to serve malware. It’s good practice to check anything that you’ll pipe to `sudo`, but this article’s level of paranoia is kind of self-defeating, no? At some point, we all trust the things we run on our machines. We rely on communities — and our participation in them — to vet installations. There is no perfect solution. Someone will always be misled.