Can’t imagine why you think that’s exclusive to Mac users. Basically no one knows how computers work
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cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Wow, grabbing a base64 obfuscated URL with curl sending the output to bash is a huge red flag. I guess Mac users must not know anything about the CLI.
Never pipe the output of curl or wget to bash. You can’t inspect whatever it downloads before it gets run. If the URL is obfuscated, there is basically a 100% chance that it’s malicious.
tdawg@lemmy.world 2 days ago
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
So many legit installers prefer this tho
MurrayL@lemmy.world 2 days ago
If you know what curl is, you’re not the target audience.
The people this is targeting don’t even know what ‘CLI’ stands for, but they absolutely will copy/paste random commands into their computer if they’re told it’ll magically fix something.