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minus-squareCrinterScaked@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoInstalling by piping from curl is pretty common and not a red flag in and of itself. Even Rust is installed this way. If you don’t trust the URL, you also shouldn’t trust any binary installers downloaded from that website.
minus-squaredelirious_owl@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·2 years agoRust is a red flag
minus-squaredelirious_owl@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·edit-22 years agoCrates is insecure and, as pointed out above, so is piping curl to bash for installing rust Dev tools
Installing by piping from curl is pretty common and not a red flag in and of itself. Even Rust is installed this way. If you don’t trust the URL, you also shouldn’t trust any binary installers downloaded from that website.
Rust is a red flag
Why?
Crates is insecure and, as pointed out above, so is piping curl to bash for installing rust Dev tools