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Quexotic@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Yes and I have read them but the problem is that if you get people to start running random powershell from sources they don’t recognize, and you can’t tell me that the average Joe knows what GitHub is, that’s not a good thing.

It’s already a threat vector that’s being exploited in the wild.

Add to that that even though it’s verifiable, this also makes this guy a target for supply chain attack.

This is bad all around.

At the very least he could have signed the scripts which he did not.

Let’s say somebody tries to run this at work and they actually succeed and they manage to get it to run so that means they have bypassed the restriction that keeps them from running unsigned scripts and so right there they’ve made their machine more vulnerable so there’s that too.

Look, I recognize what the guy’s trying to do and it’s admirable but he should use a signed installer or put something in the Windows store (ok maybe MS wouldn’t like that) or at least use some sort of modern cryptographic protections. This guy (The article author really, I don’t blame the actual scriptwriter so much) is having people paste code and run it.

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