In article <5497e1d5$0$12978$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> Steve Hayes wrote: > > > Yes, my initial reaction was "that's awesome". > > > > And my second thought was that it was scary. > > > > I ran it. It worked, and printed "Hello world". I was awed. > > > > But what if I had run it and it reformatted my hard disk? > > > > How would I have known that it would or wouldn't do that? > > That's why I didn't run it myself :-) > > Seriously. I read the blog post, it seemed legitimate, I could follow the > explanation for how it worked well enough to be convinced it would work, > but I didn't try running it myself. > > If I had, I would have made sure I was running as an unprivileged user, not > the superuser/Administrator account. Actually, since I care more about my > personal files than the operating system, I'd prefer to *not* use my normal > account. This being Linux, I can run suspicious code as the "nobody" user: If I really didn't trust something, I'd go to AWS and spin up one of their free-tier micro instances and run it there :-) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
