Comment by ffsm8
7 hours ago
You can detect the use of curl|bash server side, hence it's an essentially undetectable attack vector. People have shown poc attacks of that kind all the way back in the 2010s
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17636032
The original blog is no longer available though.
But I've not had that stop me from doing that myself, I am more towards the "I like easy" then the "I want to be secure" crowd
There’s a snapshot on web archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250109045029/https://www.idont...
How would you do that? Just rely on the user agent? I use curl quite a lot, but don't pipe to a shell.