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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers by hultner on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @08:24AM (#9419845)
I've seen people copy pasting stuff along the lines of `wget --no-check-certificate | sudo sh` into their terminals from some random internet source.

I'm pulling my hair saying are you even aware of what you're doing?

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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers by rimantas on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @08:56AM (#9420007)
What do you expect them to do, download .tar.gz, extra, read every line of code and them make; make install? Or just make; make install? How is that any different?
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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers by brohee on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @09:13AM (#9420111)
You can usually get PGP signed hashes for tarballs distributed by serious entities. If someone is distributing software and provides no way to check that it is genuine, you shouldn't run it...
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