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Re:The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed by satyenr on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @09:31AM (#21702432)
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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Re:The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed by janpot on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @10:00AM (#21702693)
> Download and run code written by strangers without understanding what it does

Like a web browser does?

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Re:The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed by tyingq on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @10:16AM (#21702828)
There's certainly a risk difference with code that runs in a reasonably well thought out sandbox.
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Re:The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed by satyenr on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @10:29AM (#21702949)
That — and I am not a big fan of browsers getting more and more access to the hardware/OS over time.
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Re:The most copied StackOverflow snippet of all time is flawed by mark-r on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @11:18AM (#21703457)
That means being beholden to native apps on every platform if you want to do anything at a lower level. I'm not sure that's a better solution.
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