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satyenr | 6 years ago

Download and run code written by strangers without understanding what it does — what could possibly go wrong?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/two-malicious-python-libraries...

Ironic that this was published today. :-)

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janpot|6 years ago

> Download and run code written by strangers without understanding what it does

Like a web browser does?

tyingq|6 years ago

There's certainly a risk difference with code that runs in a reasonably well thought out sandbox.