curl https://some-url | sh
I see this all over the place nowadays, even in communities that, I would think, should be security conscious. How is that safe? What’s stopping the downloaded script from wiping my home directory? If you use this, how can you feel comfortable?
I understand that we have the same problems with the installed application, even if it was downloaded and installed manually. But I feel the bar for making a mistake in a shell script is much lower than in whatever language the main application is written. Don’t we have something better than “sh” for this? Something with less power to do harm?
For security reasons, I review every line of code before it’s executed on my machine.
Before I die, I hope to take my ‘93 dell optiplex out of its box and finally see what this whole internet thing is about.
Not good enough. You should really be inspecting your CPU with a microscope.