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A sneaky demonstration of the dangers of curl bash (blog.k3can.us)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by K3can@lemmy.radio to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I set up a quick demonstration to show risks of curl|bash and how a bad-actor could potentially hide a malicious script that appears safe.

It's nothing new or groundbreaking, but I figure it never hurts to have another reminder.

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[–] oeLLph@feddit.org 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

@K3can@lemmy.radio love the early 2000s stylesheet/color theme of your blog 🙂

[–] K3can@lemmy.radio 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Thanks! I like to keep things simple. The colors are based on Counter Strike 1.6. 😁

And if you're into the classic styling, my homepage is a direct homage to my old 2000s sites.

[–] Mister_Hangman@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Hahahaha noticed this too. 1.5 was where it was at tho

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Running arbitrary text from the internet through an interpreter.. what could possibly go wrong.

I need to set up a website with

fork while 1

...Just so I can (try to) convince people to

curl | perl

...rhyme intended.

[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
DNS	Domain Name Service/System
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
PiHole	Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)
SSL	Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
TLS	Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL
VPS	Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 12 acronyms.

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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 1 points 4 months ago

Good bot

[–] aeiou_ckr@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months ago (5 children)

This helped a lot. I had no clue I could post the curl string in the URL bar of a browser to view the script. Thanks for the education!

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago

Shit are URLs esoteric knowledge now?

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

You didn't knew that the tool to handle URLs written in C (very creatively named C-Url) was handling URLs? It's also written in C if you didn't knew.

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