Re: Danger or not: obfuscation

You could run it in a sandbox of some kind like Safe. Or run it as a user with no priveleges. Even though I generally figure them before hand I tend to run them on a windows box (crap that'll break anyways, and doesn't have rm :-P)

-- I'm not belgian but I play one on TV.

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Re^2: Danger or not: obfuscation by DrHyde (Prior) on Sep 24, 2004 at 08:44 UTC
`Safe` isn't safe. If I want to run code that I don't really trust, I fire up my trusty ol' Virtual PC, after having backed up the disk image. This has no personal data in it. If whatever it is does Naughty Things, I can back them out by restoring the backup of the disk image.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Danger or not: obfuscation by belg4mit (Prior) on Sep 24, 2004 at 16:47 UTC
Yes, we know. We also know while there's no rm on Windows unlink is still there. The point is you can take simple precautions that go a rather long way for little effort. Most don't have Virtual PC, or Pear etc. etc., or even User Mode Linux for that matter, setup. `-- I'm not belgian but I play one on TV.`	[reply]