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oneweekwonder on July 7, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Greyhole – Redundant Storage Pooling Using Samba

> curl -Ls http://bit.ly/gh-install-package | sudo sh

Yes let us pipe a script from a changeable uri controlled by a third-party.

But then again Homebrew, Chocolatey, GitLab, etc is also guilty of this!

sytse on July 7, 2015 | [–]

GitLab only does this on https sites as far as I know and offer a link so people that are concerned can copy the whole script.

sneak on July 7, 2015 | | [–]

Some PHP garbage in the dock on the example video, too.

Safe to disregard.

lormayna on July 7, 2015 | [–]

You can just download the files, check it and then execute

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