At some point you're downloading something and executing it. Unless you pick through all of the source code or decompile the binaries you download, you could get caught at any stage.
For a beginner, it makes no difference if they get burnt by a gist or by a compromised package or binary. And they can at least attempt to read https://raw.github.com/gist/323731 in plain text.
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At some point you're downloading something and executing it. Unless you pick through all of the source code or decompile the binaries you download, you could get caught at any stage.
For a beginner, it makes no difference if they get burnt by a gist or by a compromised package or binary. And they can at least attempt to read https://raw.github.com/gist/323731 in plain text.