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Fake recruiter coding tests target devs with malicious Python packages

2 pointsby T-A8 months ago

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zahlman8 months ago
&gt; As RL researchers mentioned in our earlier discussion, this feature poses a risk. First, it is more difficult to scan compiled Python files than plaintext files, as they are packed into a binary format, making them unreadable without specialized tools.<p>This is a strange claim to make, given that one such &quot;specialized tool&quot; is provided with Python&#x27;s own standard library (the `dis` module).