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2026-04-30 21:43:11 CEST

Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 on Nostr: A lot of people are apparently happily running a script clearly marked as a root ...

A lot of people are apparently happily running a script clearly marked as a root exploit from some random website using curl | bash :blobsweat:

Some do inspect the script, but then still run it using curl | bash anyway. :thaenkin:

Incidentally, this very relevant blogpost about detecting curl | bash and serving different scripts based on that is almost exactly a decade old:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230318063325/https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-bash-server-side/

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