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by soraminazuki 751 days ago
GP likely meant differentiating `curl` and `curl | bash`.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240520142212/https://www.idont...

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Did they? IDK, just differentiating browser from curl is incredibly likely to be "good enough" as an attacker.
I did have that attack in mind, yes.

But honestly it doesn't take a lot of sophistication to hide an exploit somewhere in an entire piece of software. The average person is very vulnerable to a malicious dev and the way they download is very unlikely to matter as long as it's not http://