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Hi, we decided to make it easy to setup the tool and run it. The source code is available on GitHub

https://github.com/PatchworkSecurity/cleansweep/blob/master/...

The comments explain what is happening at each step.

Would you bet you live on the assumptionthat there is no way a network problem could truncate the script into something, that does something unintended but harmful?

http://www.seancassidy.me/dont-pipe-to-your-shell.html

That problem is easily avoided by wrapping the whole script in a function and then calling it on the last line.

It looks like Patchwork's script doesn't quite do that, but it does put _most_ of its functionality into functions, and AFAICT there is no particular place in the script where a connection loss could lead to anything bad happening. Admittedly this appears to be a lucky accident rather than following best practice.

Hi DoubleMalt,

Thanks for the link. I've filed an issue and should have this fixed tonight

https://github.com/PatchworkSecurity/cleansweep/issues/7

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