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Can I trust this script from github?
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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 103564" data-source="post: 1066182"><p>Absolutely, tools can be used either way in some circumstances. Running scripts from sources to do odd jobs is indeed a absolute risk no matter how you look at it. A silly one if you ask me. Regardless of authors intentions with them. </p><p></p><p>For an average user that has no clue as to how to view it and asks "is it safe" giving them something to help judge files is certainly better than stating "sure, go Ahead, the author says it's ok, we all know that it's safe now" I'd rather it be identified unsafe and a user not have something go wrong in their system than blindly say sure, run that script on your system with privileges and see what happens.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 103564, post: 1066182"] Absolutely, tools can be used either way in some circumstances. Running scripts from sources to do odd jobs is indeed a absolute risk no matter how you look at it. A silly one if you ask me. Regardless of authors intentions with them. For an average user that has no clue as to how to view it and asks "is it safe" giving them something to help judge files is certainly better than stating "sure, go Ahead, the author says it's ok, we all know that it's safe now" I'd rather it be identified unsafe and a user not have something go wrong in their system than blindly say sure, run that script on your system with privileges and see what happens. [/QUOTE]
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