Python application launcher (for Python code)

[Deborah Swanson]

Chris Angelico wrote, February 24, 2017 10:04 PM
> 
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 4:08 PM, Gregory Ewing 
> <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> > Deborah Swanson wrote:
> >>
> >> Well, they won't kill mine, not if I have my VPN on while 
> I'm using 
> >> it.
> >
> >
> > How will a VPN help? If it needs to phone home and perform a secret 
> > handshake before it will run, and they turn off the secret 
> handshake 
> > server, you're hosed.
> 
> It'll help because you'll know that that's what's going on 
> (because blocking it from phoning home will insta-kill the 
> program). If blocking it DOESN'T stop it from running, you 
> know you're safe.
> 
> A useful trick for verifying what you already strongly suspect.
> 
> ChrisA

There's still something creepy about the phoning home. I'd rather catch
it between phone calls if possible. Maybe turning off all internet
access (pulling the wire) while using it?