Don't copy paste from a website to a terminal

Re:Don't copy paste from a website to a terminal by jeffdavis on Thursday November 12, 2015 @01:59PM (#10555308)

Is that safe? (Legitimate question)

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Re:Don't copy paste from a website to a terminal by keithgabryelski on Thursday November 12, 2015 @02:40PM (#10555556)

one can target specific editors...

for instance, if I know you are using VI I can create a series of characters that will escape out of insert mode and run a shell command (note: ^[ is ESC (ascii 27))

git status

:!echo foo

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