shellblock

shellblock

This stops you from forgetting that curl or wget | bash is a terrible idea.

Merlin
Stats
This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2023-04-06
Users: 47
Rating: 5.00 (2)
Version: 0.0.4 (Last updated: 2016-05-08)
Creation date: 2016-05-08
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: High risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • clipboardWrite
  • clipboardRead
Size: 15.01K
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Summary

Runs a series of regular expressions over your clipboard and checks for curl or wget commands which pipe to a shell such as:

curl https://example.com | bash wget -O - http://www.example.com | sh

If detected the extension replaces them with

Clipboard cleared by shellblock

While this extension wont prevent you from doing something stupid it'll hopefully make you stop and think twice.

User reviews
good
by song Won Yong song Won Yong, 2018-02-04
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Safety
Risk impact

shellblock is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

shellblock may not be trust-worthy. Avoid installing if possible unless you really trust this publisher.

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