Insecurity and Python pickles

Posted Mar 14, 2024 19:28 UTC (Thu) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Insecurity and Python pickles by adobriyan
Parent article: Insecurity and Python pickles

> Police officers don't even get prompted by their gun's safety lock, they just disable it and shoot the criminal if necessary.

So? Police weaponry is specifically designed to kill or otherwise incapacitate; they have no other legitimate uses. [1]

Whereas these "dangerous" software features are used as intended by untold millions of office drones every single day.

[1] They are also used to project the implicit and explicit threat of potentially lethal force should you not submit to their authority.