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by honest_joe 4002 days ago
Commit a race condition to glibc,musl,uclibc and fuck up almost every software on the planet.

It's convenient and that does not mean it's a good practice but i doubt using an other method would minimize a risk when the meteor.com would actually get owned.
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sarciszewski 4002 days ago
> i doubt using an other method would minimize a risk when the meteor.com would actually get owned.

GPG signing, keep the private key offline, publish the public key in the blockchain and have a lot of high profile technologists sign it so it can be independently verified.

See also: PHPUnit. https://phpunit.de/manual/current/en/installation.html#insta...

(They provide an example shell script for quickly downloading and verifying the latest versions of their install)

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honest_joe 4002 days ago
I completely understand your point.

But at the end it's about people ...your example with PHPUnit can be abused like this https://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste How many people do you think will bother to paste the script to a text editor and check for evil parts ?

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sarciszewski 4002 days ago
Anybody who runs unverified code, through any medium, when the option to run trusted code is available, deserves to get pwned.

https://github.com/paragonie/password_lock/blob/master/run-t...

^- For the record, I keep scripts like this in my Git repositories.

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