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> I've long since said that if you want to hide something nefarious you'd do that in the GNU autoconf soup (and not in "curl | sh" scripts). Yeah, I've been ba
by bodyfour 3y ago
> I've long since said that if you want to hide something nefarious you'd do that in the GNU autoconf soup (and not in "curl | sh" scripts).
Yeah, I've been banging on that same drum for ages too... for example on this very site a decade ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7213563 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7213563
I'm honestly surprised that this autoconf vector hasn't happened more often... or more often that we know of.
- pretzel5297 3y agoGiven that this was discovered by sheer luck, I'd expect way more such exploits in the wild.