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This includes things that have become commonplace, such as downloading random tarballs off the internet and running "./configure ; make". Nothing is safe.
by awda 13y ago
This includes things that have become commonplace, such as downloading random tarballs off the internet and running "./configure ; make".
Nothing is safe.
- benmanns 13y agoOr even worse, curl http://example.com/install.sh | sh
- taopao 13y agobut... that one-liner makes my rails.node.js.io framework so beautiful and simple...
- foobarqux 13y agoI don't understand what it is but there is a culture in Ruby/Node to make installation "easy" to the extent that it is dangerous and, worse, offer no documented alternative. Installing rvm shouldn't add lines to my .zshrc without prompting me. That behavior would be outrageous anywhere else but in Ruby land it's normal.
- unix-dude 13y agoDamn, made me cringe and lol at the same time.
- X4 13y agouhh yeahhhh that is too common, look at github and see how many projects use link-trackers+url-shorteners instead of raw-github-urls.