this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2025
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If you've downloaded and audited the script, there's no reason to pipe it from curl to sh, just run it. No https necessary.
The https is to cover the factthat you might have missed something.
I guess I download and skim out of principle, but they might have hidden something in there.
Wat. All https does is encrypt the connection when downloading. If you've already downloaded the file to audit it, then it's in your drive, no need to use curl to download it again and then pipe it to sh. Just click the thing.
Yeah, https was for downloading it in the first place. My bad, I didn't get my thoughts out in the right order.
That makes sense. I probably should have gotten it from context.