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robjan on May 17, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate

I'd hazard a guess that more of us have done this than haven't:

curl https://raw.github.com/innocent/script.sh | sudo sh

sodality2 on May 17, 2021 [–]

I'd hazard a guess that a far LESS percentage of linux users do so, than Windows users who would open an exe if their browser told them to and fall for other types of ransomware.

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