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?
Depends on the repo but at least for Debian, there’s a path of trust between GPG keys I’ve signed and the Debian release GPG keys.
How do you know that the malware goblin hasn’t installed malware on your computer when you weren’t looking?
I think the only foolproof plan is using boulders, stones, and perhaps other blunt objects to deal with the issue of code executing altogether.
What are you trying to say?
If there’s code running on a machine, there’s a possibility it’s malicious or unsafe, the only solution is destruction of anything that can run code.