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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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[–] aeiou_ckr@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This helped a lot. I had no clue I could post the curl string in the URL bar of a browser to view the script. Thanks for the education!

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

You had no idea you could paste a url into a browser's location bar ?

[–] aeiou_ckr@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago

I wasn't looking to get roasted for not knowing something. Guess that teaches me something else. Fuck people and thanking them for Shar something I didn't know. 

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

You didn't knew that the tool to handle URLs written in C (very creatively named C-Url) was handling URLs? It's also written in C if you didn't knew.

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 21 hours ago

Shit are URLs esoteric knowledge now?