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    Copy-Paste from Website to Terminal (2014) ☶ security thejh.net
    sebboh avatar via sebboh 4 months ago | cached | 3 comments

Previously: https://lobste.rs/s/rnxo4t/don_t_copy_paste_from_website_terminal

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    pilkch avatar pilkch 4 months ago | link

    Just fire up gedit as a scratch pad that you have to paste to first, then copy from gedit to the terminal.

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      nickpsecurity avatar nickpsecurity 4 months ago | link

      That’s what I do. One can also sanity check the command against the man pages.

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      coypoop avatar coypoop 4 months ago | link

      interestingly, fish seems to be unaffected by this exact attack because it doesn’t interpret newlines as “end of command”.