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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