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?

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[–] 2 points 4 months ago

It forces you to blindly trust that whatever script curl will download is save to run and does exactly what you want / was promised as it will be executed right away.

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