A package is at least a signable, checksummable artefact. The curl | sh thing could have been anything and after running it you have no record of what it was you did.
There have also been PoCs on serving malicious content only when piped to sh rather than saved to file.
If you want to execute shell code from the internet, at the very least store it in a file first and store that file somewhere persistent before executing it. It will make forensics easier
There have also been PoCs on serving malicious content only when piped to sh rather than saved to file.
If you want to execute shell code from the internet, at the very least store it in a file first and store that file somewhere persistent before executing it. It will make forensics easier