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by psylence519 3613 days ago
You’re executing a script directly off of a git repo. There’s a lot of trust involved there. One sneaky pull-request away from an exploit.

That said, I do it all the time like everyone else. :)

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That's the official installation instruction of homebrew. http://brew.sh/

But anyway I got your point.

That doesn't make it any less terrible, but honestly who expects more from homebrew, as a project it's hardly the pinnacle of engineering excellence.