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I set up a quick demonstration to show risks of curl|bash and how a bad-actor could potentially hide a malicious script that appears safe.

It's nothing new or groundbreaking, but I figure it never hurts to have another reminder.

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[โ€“] ikidd@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh, people will keep using it no matter how much you warn them.

Proxmox-helper-scripts is a perfect example. They'll agree with you until that site comes up, and then its "it'll never, ever get hacked and subverted, nope, can't happen, impossible".

Wankers.

[โ€“] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I was looking at that very thing last night.

But then I realized, "why can't immich just create usable packages like we had before?" and noped back out.

But, for a moment, I was sure a little inspection and testing would make the Internet equivalent of NYC MTA coin-sucking magically safe. It looked so eeeeasy.