Comment by brianberns
7 years ago
This would reveal your intent to a human reader. I think the author of the article was trying to avoid doing that.
7 years ago
This would reveal your intent to a human reader. I think the author of the article was trying to avoid doing that.
Fooling a human with bash is less difficult than you might imagine. I am fooled by bash code at least half the time I interact with a shell script I didn't write myself. A misleading comment plus an innocuous looking URL, coupled with the fact that an installation script can be expected to download files from the internet in order to install them would make this slip past nearly any reviewer.