ANNOUNCE; Try python beta

Gerhard Häring gh at ghaering.de
Mon Dec 19 20:03:00 EST 2005


Lonnie Princehouse wrote:
> Pretty neat =)
> 
> But aren't you concerned about security?  Letting anybody execute
> arbitrary Python expressions (and therefore also arbitrary system
> commands?!) on your box --- even from within a FreeBSD jail --- seems a
> bit dangerous.

I found out about the FreeBSD jail myself, too ;-)

Removing __import__ from the builtins would make such detective work 
much harder, though ;-)

-- Gerhard



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