Looks like an interesting read.The reason why you should only used trusted sources for installing packages, as well as the least privileges necessary principal and never run a script before actually having read it yourself so you have an idea of what it will actually be doing to your system. There is a way to execute commands as root when you have sudo access to tcpdump, went looking for it and found what I was talking about plus more.
Abusing sudo to get root
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