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Re: What do you make of this reported Linux back door?

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From Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid>
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Subject Re: What do you make of this reported Linux back door?
Date Tue, 4 Mar 2025 18:29:51 +0000
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On 28/02/2025 17:00, J.O. Aho wrote:
> 
> As Carlos and John has already pointed out, you need to execute a binary 
> (or script) and it's self inflicted, don't install anything you can't 
> install from your distros repository unless you really know what you are 
> doing.
> 

So many users are tempted to install software, using the wget workflow 
that directly pipes script hosted on website into a command prompt.

It is so risky....

-- 
Adrian C

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What do you make of this reported Linux back door? Hank <hankrobins@notspam.uk> - 2025-02-28 08:45 +0100
  Re: What do you make of this reported Linux back door? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-02-28 13:06 +0100
    Re: What do you make of this reported Linux back door? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-03-02 00:38 +0000
  Re: What do you make of this reported Linux back door? John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2025-02-28 08:09 -0600
  Re: What do you make of this reported Linux back door? "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2025-02-28 18:00 +0100
    Re: What do you make of this reported Linux back door? Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2025-03-04 18:29 +0000
      Re: What do you make of this reported Linux back door? "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2025-03-04 22:51 +0100
        Re: What do you make of this reported Linux back door? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-05 00:05 +0100

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