<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Jed Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jed@jedbrown.org" target="_blank">jed@jedbrown.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">Matthew Knepley <<a href="mailto:knepley@gmail.com">knepley@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
> I don't actually care whether we keep this check. However, I do think<br>
> the arguments advanced so far do not amount to more than prejudice. I<br>
> don't think a security argument holds water<br>
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</span>Security only insofar as urllib could have a vulnerability. I think<br>
privacy is still a concern.<br>
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> for a system that downloads tarballs from other sites without any kind<br>
> of check.<br>
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</span>That is opt-in (the user passes --download).<br>
</blockquote></div><br>Not for everything, like sowing.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"> Matt<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.<br>-- Norbert Wiener</div>
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