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A sneaky demonstration of the dangers of curl bash (blog.k3can.us)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

a more cautious user might first paste the url into the address bar of their web browser to see what the script looks like before running it.

Wow, I never thought anyone would be that dumb.

Why wouldn't they just wget it, read it, and then execute it?

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