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Valentines Day in BASH

valentines.digitalocean.com

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Re: Valentines Day in BASH

#3
Don't we have a bit too much of a history with clicking/doing things on the internet with "love" in their names? Happy Friday by DigitalOcean, where trusting random people on the internets is company policy.

Re: Valentines Day in BASH

#5
no love for my mac :-(

[Fri Feb 14 14:35:37] -bash:~$ curl -s valentines.digitalocean.com | bash

bash: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'

bash: line 1: `'" rel="nofollow">http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">'

Re: Valentines Day in BASH

#6
Why could't this just be a text file with curses escapes available via netcat? At least then it's limited only to known terminal exploits, rather than running whatever the hell it wants as you.

Re: Valentines Day in BASH

#7
post #2

Can we please not tell people to pipe things directly from curl to bash?

Exactly. There's no way in hell anyone should ever do that, even (thanks to DNS hijacking etc.) if they thought the file was something they wrote themselves.

Re: Valentines Day in BASH

#8
post #3

Don't we have a bit too much of a history with clicking/doing things on the internet with "love" in their names? Happy Friday by DigitalOcean, where trusting random people on the internets is company policy.

Pipe it to more. That's just crap at the end after a lot of white space. What's sad about this is that it doesnt use curses and just reprints the entire terminal.

curl http://artscene.textfiles.com/vt100/valentin.vt

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