http://learn.perl.org/installing/osx.html contains
curl -L http://xrl.us/installperlosx | bash
which is a horrible security anti-pattern.
Yes, it's extremely simple, but we shouldn't be encouraging people to do this without enough warnings to dissuade them. What happens if someone changes where that short link redirects to? What if someone changes the result to do sudo rm -rf /.
http://learn.perl.org/installing/osx.html contains
which is a horrible security anti-pattern.
Yes, it's extremely simple, but we shouldn't be encouraging people to do this without enough warnings to dissuade them. What happens if someone changes where that short link redirects to? What if someone changes the result to do
sudo rm -rf /.