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Don’t blindly curl install scripts.

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Console’s review

· Reviewed by David Mytton

What we like

Wraps around the common but risky pattern of piping scripts to bash from curl. Provides a temporary location for the download, shows a diff if you previously ran the script, analyzes the code for malicious patterns, provides confirmation for everything.

Tradeoffs

Could it actually sandbox the download - that would be a full solution.

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