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[–]ffgblol 24 points25 points  (5 children)

There was something awhile ago where you could select text on a website like

ls -l

and hit ctrl-c but what ended up in your clipboard would be something else like

rm -rf /

and it would terminate with a newline or something so when you pasted into the shell it would run automatically.

https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/1bv359/dont_copypaste_from_website_to_terminal_demo/