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by aftbit 4144 days ago
Yet another script that asks you to pipe curl to sh. At least they used https.
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Therefor you should always check out the script before running.
So? Nothing different that downloading an opaque binary and executing them -- which we do all the time.

It's all about trust.

When you run:

apt-get install foo

is it any different? You download a file that essentially runs anything pre- and post- install of the rpm.