On 3 August 2017 at 10:16, William ML Leslie <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2 August 2017 at 17:09, Ben Finney <[email protected]> wrote: >> I think it is alarmingly bad advice to say “prepare for this tutorial by >> downloading this third-party shell script and running it on your >> computer”. So I've been trying to find a way that is more secure than >> that. >> > > That's before you even get to hiding size=0 characters in commands > that people copy and paste into their terminal. >
On the other hand, you're expecting this program to perform actions for you such as installing packages, and you are granting it all the authority of your user, as you do when running any program you download off the internet. -- William Leslie Notice: Likely much of this email is, by the nature of copyright, covered under copyright law. You absolutely MAY reproduce any part of it in accordance with the copyright law of the nation you are reading this in. Any attempt to DENY YOU THOSE RIGHTS would be illegal without prior contractual agreement. _______________________________________________ melbourne-pug mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pug
