

I’ve gone through and responded to the other top level comments as well, but another massive issue you could add to your edit is that servers can detect curl <URL> | sh
rather than just curl <URL>
and deliver a malicious payload only if it’s being piped directly to a shell.
There’s a proof-of-concept attack showing its efficacy here: https://github.com/Stijn-K/curlbash_detect
In the default configuration of iDevices, the US already can
This seems more around the UK wanting to spy on its own citizens more easily