planetf1 , 26 days ago

@jerry What could possibly go wrong.... That being said it's a popular bootstrap - for example homebrew, rust & many other apps...

JustinDerrick , 26 days ago (edited 26 days ago)

@jerry This has always made my skin crawl, especially when prefixed with 'sudo'....

sudo curl https://FMyShitUp.com/ShitMyFUp.sh | sh

EDIT: Had to edit because I never expected that domain to actually exist.

itgrrl , 26 days ago

@jerry

Deer eating popcorn

b00ga , 26 days ago

@jerry bonus points if it’s:

curl [whatever.ru]| sudo bash

jerry OP , 26 days ago

@b00ga the # at the front was intends to denote it running as root. I mean, why not go all the way?

b00ga , 26 days ago

@jerry I _should _ have realized that, but go for the gusto! You don’t expect those top notch security experts to ssh in as root before running their cut-n-paste curl bash, do you?

ParadeGrotesque , 26 days ago

@jerry

"Perfectly"

18+ vertana , 26 days ago

@jerry Servers can detect when you are using curl like this and serve you different content on the fly.

I’m assuming most of the thread already knows that, but there are tools to help with this issue. Here’s a random one I found: https://github.com/mplewis/shed

So it’s not a great default, but it can be worked with.

michal , 26 days ago

@jerry You forgot sudo

elusiveman , 26 days ago

@jerry you forgot the sudo 😝

jerry OP , 26 days ago

@elusiveman the “#” was supposed to denote it running as root

elusiveman , 26 days ago

@jerry OK, way ahead of me, I see 😄

iagox86 , 26 days ago

@jerry Make sure it starts with http://

gary_alderson , 26 days ago

@jerry and always manage your bank account from your phone - perhaps the most important security tip

Andres , 26 days ago

@jerry
It always inspire so much confidence.