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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 (2 children)

I'm a bit lost with

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. In the

You... You just.... You just dump the curl output to file and examine that and then run it if its good

Just a weird imagined sequence to me.

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