<i>But if I look around I put so incredibly much trust in total strangers all the time that compared to say ordering a pizza (where the cook could put anything in the food they wanted), driving on the highway (where anybody could swerve any moment if they wanted) and simply walking down the street (where that old lady on the left of me could pull a knife and stab me any time they wanted) that you have to wonder if the downsides weigh up against the upsides of simply trusting the website you get the information from and getting on with your life</i><p>But in all of the scenarios you just mentioned:<p>1) It&#x27;s immediately obvious something&#x27;s very wrong. (Assuming pizza contains poison.)<p>2) It&#x27;s very likely the perpetrator will get caught.<p>3) No one else is left with control over your resources<p>Trusting a script from a website to the point where you execute it in your terminal could result in someone controlling a rootkit on your machine, without you ever knowing, with little chance of a savvy perpetrator getting caught, and with all of your operating system tools subsequently lying to you about any information you could use to detect the event.<p>That said, I&#x27;ve trusted such scripts and &quot;gotten on with my life&quot; on several occasions.