Post #3256670
2026-06-10 12:31 UTC
Is it a new trend to provide curl command piped to shell as installation instruction?
What could possibly go wrong?
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@mkj@social.mkj.earth 2026-06-10 13:09
@aurisc4@floss.social "New"? Not at all. I've seen it in wide use for at a guess a few years, maybe more, and this is relevant dating back to 2016: https://web.archive.org/web/20250622061208/https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-bash-server-side/