On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Zack Weinberg <[email protected]> wrote:

> Well, it makes *me* wince because you're directing people to pull code
> over the network and feed it straight to the PHP interpreter, probably
> as root, without inspecting it first.  And the site is happy to send
> it to you via plain HTTP, which means a one-character typo gives an
> active attacker a chance to pwn your entire installation.
>

It's over HTTPS. As long as you trust that getcomposer.org is the domain
you are looking for, this is really no different than installing via a
package manager.

*-- *
*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016
Major in Computer Science
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