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marjancekyesterday at 10:13 PM1 replyview on HN

> curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ErikHellman/txt/main/insta... | sh

With the amount of new seemingly well polished personal projects being built (thanks to the help of LLMs) I feel increasingly concerned by how easy it is becoming to get a worm/virus/troyan to a lot of people.


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magackameyesterday at 11:52 PM

And how is this different from downloading a file from a GitHub releases page? Or even installing from FlatHub with full fs perms (which would make sense for a text editor)?

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