On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 4:08 PM, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Deborah Swanson wrote: >> >> Well, they won't kill mine, not if I have my VPN on while I'm using it. > > > How will a VPN help? If it needs to phone home and perform a > secret handshake before it will run, and they turn off the secret > handshake server, you're hosed.
It'll help because you'll know that that's what's going on (because blocking it from phoning home will insta-kill the program). If blocking it DOESN'T stop it from running, you know you're safe. A useful trick for verifying what you already strongly suspect. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
