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> You have a TLS connection with the site you're downloading from. `curl | bash` is no worse than downloading a .dmg or .deb from the same server would be.

This site's argument is that the software publisher can selectively attack users during a live software install, in a way that they don't stand a chance of detecting by inspection (or of having proof of after the fact).

parent schoen 8 years ago

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