[stackbutterflow]

> It's certainly a good lesson in not copy/pasting random snippets from the internet and pasting them into a root shell, however

I gotta say that I always make sure that I understand each piece of code that I copy paste but I do copy paste and never thought of this type of attack. Maybe that's something I should pay attention to in the future.

[captaincrunch]

from the article, its likely you'd not even notice - unless you pasted in an ascii only editor that doesn't allow anything other than plain old text.