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Subject: Re: What do you make of this reported Linux back door?
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On 04/03/2025 19.29, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
> 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....

yes, it's risky, I do always use a distribution that has a good 
ecosystem, so you don't have to run some script to install stuff, but 
just use the standard package manager using the default repositories.

-- 
  //Aho