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[–] art 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You can grab that shell file and examine it. You can also check it out from their public git. I agree that this is bad practices, but not exactly uncommon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

It being a bad practice and "not uncommon" is my complaint.