Bracketed paste can save you from accidental damage, but not from malicious pastes. As the fine article says, <i>the end sequence can be inside the text you paste unless your terminal emulator filters out the bracketed paste characters</i> (and last time I checked, at least urxvt didn&#x27;t).<p>Besides, teaching shell about bracketed paste could only help for pasting directly to shell; it won&#x27;t help if you&#x27;re pasting to vim (think of &quot;^[:q!echo pwned^J&quot;) or cat (think of &quot;^Decho pwned^J&quot;).