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[aguinaldo]

Installing Python in Puppy is secure?

Can I be attacked if I have a programming language on Puppy?

Thanks for any kind of answer!

[Lobster]

[aguinaldo]

Thanks a lot! I will try not to download this kind of file.

Now I can install tomboy and Zim.

[Iguleder]

It depends on your definition of "secure".

Any hacker knows that every system can be hacked, with enough time and effort. You can't say that Puppy is less secure because the user runs as root - it just makes it easier to gain permissions (e.g privilege escalation), since any exploit in any program is enough to run stuff as root; it is still required to break into the system somehow.

Generally, "secure programming language" is a very silly thing to say, since you can easily find security holes in managed code (e.g Python, JVM, CLR), although it's a bit harder (because the runtime wraps memory allocation system calls, handles garbage collection, etc').