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November 12, 2015 04:29 pm PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/aFmmKObv1sY/dont-copy-paste-terminal-com.html
Don't copy-paste terminal commands from the web
A clever fellow explains.
You surely know this: You're looking at some website with some useful shell commands. However, those commands are long as hell and you know you're probably not gonna need them for a few years or so (so there's no need to memorize them). So, what do you do? You copy-paste them. What happens?
tl;dr: whatever Javascript put into your clipboard gets run irrespective of what you thought you were copying, and the outcomes can be exceedingly unpleasant.
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/aFmmKObv1sY/dont-copy-paste-terminal-com.html
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