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by Wilder7977 20 days ago
Apparently yes, judging from the fact that ChatGPT did that with a number of people.

My question though it's another: is it malware a software that does a stdout print, or is it malware a software that takes untrusted instructions and executes commands it decides based on it?

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> is it malware a software that does a stdout print,

If that print is intended to cause damage, then yes.

> or is it malware a software that takes untrusted instructions and executes commands it decides based on it?

No, bash is not malware, even if you pipe curl to it.