Can I trust downloading Python?

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> Of course, Linux is a much
> harder target than the average unpatched Windows box, and there are
> probably easier ways to get access to your files if they really need to.

Plus "Linux" isn't a single target. You can search the internet for
Windows XP boxes and there's an extremely high chance they'll all be
running the same base services; when you're attacking Linux, there's a
much MUCH smaller set of common code, with most attacks being aimed at
an application - which may or may not be running on any given
computer. So there's a lot less chance that you'll be randomly
assaulted just for connecting to the internet; the attacks are most
likely to come from browsing a site that exploits a Javascript
vulnerability.

I'm not particularly bothered by the possibility of someone snooping
at what I'm doing. Oh how terrible, they'll discover that I'm just as
nerdy in private as I am in public...

ChrisA