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Getting socially engineered with AI slop and then downloading some random shit on your work machine is just humongously stupid. I wouldn't want to be in the skin of that engineer right now
Dude should never be allowed to touch a computer again. How do these people get hired? He Googled "homebrew," clicked a fucking ad, landed at the page in the screenshot, then ran that insanely obviously suspicious terminal command to "install" it. Are you joking.
What the fuck? I did that when i was like 13. If someone wrote this as a story, no one would believe it, because its too stupid, but fucking hell, reality is dumber than fiction.
I agree with you, but unfortunately "just run this command" is how the brew page works, so mac users are trained to just do that, and I can believe they did it without looking (although that command would have me asking questions as well) -
Why the hell would you code (or do any serious work) on a Mac?
The only alternative is windows.
The worst part, honestly, is that when you ctrl+D a terminal, it says "shell has exited," and then the window stays open.
Whoever made this decision should be flogged.
Holy crap! That's wild.
I got a Captcha on some search result a few weeks ago that initially looked legitimate then came up with this.
It had put obfuscated code on my clipboard to download and run an executable.
This is partly on software devs these past 10-15 years. They've gotten so much lazier when it comes to making their software easy to install. Legitimate software often ends up having a 10-long list of instructions to install it.