Diode Drive – Privacy-focused distributed alternative to GoogleDrive and Dropbox

Re:Diode Drive – Privacy-focused distributed alternative to ... by corbet on Friday March 12, 2021 @04:11PM (#26440976)

I'm sorry, but if I see "high security" followed by instructions to do "curl|sh", I have a hard time taking anything else seriously...

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Re:Diode Drive – Privacy-focused distributed alternative to ... by buildanduse on Friday March 12, 2021 @06:52PM (#26442411)

The curl instructions are a method to download the CLI tool...

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Re:Diode Drive – Privacy-focused distributed alternative to ... by encryptluks2 on Friday March 12, 2021 @09:12PM (#26443275)

The point being is it is bad security to pipe a script into your shell. Providing a copy and paste to do just that leaves a bad impression.

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Re:Diode Drive – Privacy-focused distributed alternative to ... by buildanduse on Saturday March 13, 2021 @12:44AM (#26444309)

Thanks for the feedback...

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Re:Diode Drive – Privacy-focused distributed alternative to ... by xfer on Saturday March 13, 2021 @01:06AM (#26444402)

Downloading a binary from internet and running it doesn't make it a better practice. That's what everyone does though. So no idea why you are complaining about curl and pipes.

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Re:Diode Drive – Privacy-focused distributed alternative to ... by encryptluks2 on Saturday March 13, 2021 @01:22AM (#26444465)

That actually happens a lot less frequently with Linux distros since most users just use their distribution repos to install software.

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