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buildanduse
1926 days ago
The curl instructions are a method to download the CLI tool...
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encryptluks2
1926 days ago
The point being is it is bad security to pipe a script into your shell. Providing a copy and paste to do just that leaves a bad impression.
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buildanduse
1926 days ago
Thanks for the feedback...
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xfer
1926 days ago
Downloading a binary from internet and running it doesn't make it a better practice. That's what everyone does though. So no idea why you are complaining about curl and pipes.
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encryptluks2
1926 days ago
That actually happens a lot less frequently with Linux distros since most users just use their distribution repos to install software.
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