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Are you asking if the maintainer of 'requests' decides to spy on computers and phone home information? What packages do this?

• twinkletwinkle 10y ago
  Not a laywer, I'm just picking nits. It seems to me when you pip install a package, you are saying "download <this thing> and run its setup.py file". What if requests did something you didn't like, something simple like write a new directory or change the name of a certain file. Could you sue over that? Where is the distinction?
  • placeybordeaux 10y ago
    No one would be suing. This would be criminal. I was thinking that a simple way this would be illegal in the US would be "[accessing] a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access, and thereby obtains information from any protected computer" See a2C here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act#Criminal_offenses_under_the_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act#C... I'd assume you can make a decent case that the person only authorized the installation of a piece of software, not the gathering of identifying information. IP addresses can be used as identifying information especially when paired with a timestamp. Being an American citizen living in the US I would not want my name on this paper.
    • twinkletwinkle 10y ago
      Ah fair enough, that makes more sense. It's definitely an unethical experiment, glad my name isn't on it either.