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>>rubyn0+(OP)
Neat! But it's not obviously a bad idea. You have a TLS connection with the site you're downloading from. `curl | bash` is no worse than downloading a .dmg or .deb from the same server would be.

>>cjbpri+e2
deb/rpm is better because it's usually signed by maintainer with GPG keys. I think that it's harder to steal keys from maintainer than to infiltrate web server.

>>vbezhe+p2
For the most part you receive the GPG keys over the same TLS connection, though.

>>cjbpri+r3
Not sure what you mean. I don’t think apt-get install foo involves transferring GPG keys.

>>sigjui+a4
We're comparing the security properties of

`curl https://somesite.com/foo.sh | bash`

with

`curl https://somesite.com/foo.deb`

and

`curl https://somesite.com/apt.key | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install some-software`

I don't think there are very meaningful differences in the security properties -- I don't think it's more difficult to become compromised by one than by one of the others.