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Comment by Animats

18 hours ago

Or worse

   sudo curl URL | bash

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chii  12 hours ago

made even worse by the fact that it's possible to detect a pipe vs just standard out display of the contents of curl, from the server side.

This means the attack can be "invisible", as a cursory glance at the output of the curl can be misleading.

You _have_ to curl with piping the output into a file (like | cat), and examine that file to detect any anomaly.