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Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by Dayshine on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @06:59AM (#12966232)
>Out of band verification. When you're doing curl pipe sh, you're trusting the host and that's it. With packages, you can verify the trust against external services like keybase, check website archive for changed key ids, check signatures on the public key if the author is into things like web of trust.

Your grandma is pretty advanced.

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Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by oblio on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @10:11AM (#12967566)
> Your grandma is pretty advanced.

Grandma level: Grace Hopper.

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Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by viraptor on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @05:56PM (#12972402)
Who said anything about grandmas. The topic was "what's better than curl pipe sh". The target crowd knows how to use the terminal.

But if the software is already installed, trusted package author also allows secure updates.

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