Chris Angelico wrote, February 24, 2017 10:04 PM > > On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 4:08 PM, Gregory Ewing > <greg.ew...@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? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
