[Blackthorn]

Have you ever run "./configure" on some open source code you downloaded? That's no more safe. In this case, curl | bash is probably more safe because at least it came over HTTPS.

[discardorama]

> Have you ever run "./configure" on some open source code you downloaded? That's no more safe.

That is if you don't do a

    view ./configure

first and go through it. You do take a look at the configure scripts, don't you?

[Blackthorn]

What's less readable, a ToS that you have to accept or a GNU autotools configure script?

Example: expat's autoconf script is over twenty two thousand lines long.

[cos]

You could just as easily do 'curl someurl | less' before you run it, too.