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Have you ever run "./configure" on some open source code you downloaded? That's no more safe. In this case, curl | bash is probably more safe because at least i
by Blackthorn 12y ago
Have you ever run "./configure" on some open source code you downloaded? That's no more safe. In this case, curl | bash is probably more safe because at least it came over HTTPS.
- discardorama 12y ago> Have you ever run "./configure" on some open source code you downloaded? That's no more safe. That is if you don't do a view ./configure first and go through it. You do take a look at the configure scripts, don't you?
- Blackthorn 12y agoWhat's less readable, a ToS that you have to accept or a GNU autotools configure script? Example: expat's autoconf script is over twenty two thousand lines long.
- cos 12y agoYou could just as easily do 'curl someurl | less' before you run it, too.