I set up a quick demonstration to show risks of curl|bash and how a bad-actor could potentially hide a malicious script.

It’s nothing new or groundbreaking, but I figure it never hurts to have another reminder.

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzB
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    arrow-down
    6
    ·
    edit-2
    9 minutes ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
    PiHole Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)
    SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
    TLS Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL
    VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

    4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 10 acronyms.

    [Thread #111 for this comm, first seen 23rd Feb 2026, 04:40] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]