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Comment by discardorama | Hacker News Reader

> Have you ever run "./configure" on some open source code you downloaded? That's no more safe.

That is if you don't do a

    view ./configure

first and go through it. You do take a look at the configure scripts, don't you?

What's less readable, a ToS that you have to accept or a GNU autotools configure script?

Example: expat's autoconf script is over twenty two thousand lines long.

You could just as easily do 'curl someurl | less' before you run it, too.