On Wed, Jun 04, 2025 at 05:44:22PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote: > > Malicious in what sense? Is it just junk, or is it attempting to have > > maintainers perform some potentially dangerous operation? > > Well, useless it is for certain but links like: > > Bug Report: https://hastebin.com/share/pihohaniwi.bash > > Entire Log: https://hastebin.com/share/orufevoquj.perl > > are rather suspicious and suggest there's more in there than just a lack of > knowledge (but now that I've tried the suffixes seem to be automatically > added by some filetype detection logic in the hastebin.com site itself so > more likely this is not malicious after all). FWIW I've downloaded one of > the files through wget and looked into it and it seems to have a reasonable > content and does not seem malicious but it is difficult to be sure in the > maze of HTML and JS... Yes, hence my question. I think it's just a bad medium. It's actually the kind of thing that bugzilla is okay to use for -- create a bug with attachments and report it to the list, so maybe the original author can use that instead of pastebin sites? -K
