[Python-Dev] Challenge: Please break this! (was: Reviving restricted mode)

[Guido van Rossum]

I sent a link out to Twitter...

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Steven Bethard
<steven.bethard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:10 PM, tav <tav at espians.com> wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> As an attempt to convince everyone of the merits of my functions-based
>> approach to security, I've come up with a simple challenge. I've
>> attached it as safelite.py
>>
>> The challenge is simple:
>>
>> * Open a fresh Python interpreter
>> * Do: >>> from safelite import FileReader
>> * You can use FileReader to read files on your filesystem
>> * Now find a way to *write* to the filesystem from your interpreter
>
> If you really want people to try and break it, I suggest you send it
> to c.l.py - there are load of people there with too much time on their
> hands. ;-)
>
> Steve
> --
> I'm not *in*-sane. Indeed, I am so far *out* of sane that you appear a
> tiny blip on the distant coast of sanity.
>        --- Bucky Katt, Get Fuzzy
>



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