Have you ever found a GitHub project or anything that seemed nice and tempting to install until you dug a bit deeper?
What are some red flags that should detur anyone from installing and running something?
Have you ever found a GitHub project or anything that seemed nice and tempting to install until you dug a bit deeper?
What are some red flags that should detur anyone from installing and running something?
As a sporadic foss contributor and foss advocate, I ain’t even installing your shit if the only install option is curl pipe to shell.
And I also do think it’s a red flag exactly like the original poster was looking for.
if you’re dumb enough to pipe curl to bash you deserve everything you get.
rtfs
I hate Windows partially because you have to download a bunch of random executables. Making that same security hole into a one liner in bash and making that the only install supported is not an improvement in any way.