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I think this is supposed to be a April's fools joke. - github user created in April's 1st (http://github.com/denied http://github.com/denied) - contact is an

by Gonsalu 17y ago

I think this is supposed to be a April's fools joke. - github user created in April's 1st (http://github.com/denied http://github.com/denied) - contact is an email link to Armin Ronacher (http://github.com/mitsuhiko http://github.com/mitsuhiko), who actually published the denied code in github - code basically just uses jinja2 and werkzeug, which are a template language and a web framework, respectively, which Armin works on So... yeah.

moe 17y ago
My first reflex when I saw this was to think that it's meant as a tongue-in-cheek sidekick on the recent microframework-craze. Still not sure about the intention, but as others have pointed out, yes it's an April's fools.
- tlrobinson 17y ago
  I should have announced my Bash microframework, martin, yesterday: http://github.com/tlrobinson/wwwoosh/blob/master/martin.sh http://github.com/tlrobinson/wwwoosh/blob/master/martin.sh
jerf 17y ago
What it looks like is a virus: http://github.com/denied/denied/blob/master/deny.py http://github.com/denied/denied/blob/master/deny.py I'm very much not saying that's what it is. Looking at the end it looks like an encoded zip file which the code extracts. Perhaps somebody else will be kind enough to run it and find out what it does. I'd feel too guilty, having told too many people not to do that.
- kingkilr 17y ago
  It's not a virus, it just unpacks wurkeug, jinja, simplejson, and probably some other stuff. Pretty much it's an epic hack.
- ubernostrum 17y ago
  What it looks like is a virus Because it happens to use a base64-encoded string to obscure some of what it's doing? Yes, there's malware which does that, but this is also such an ancient trick in humorous code obfuscation that it seems silly to jump to the level of paranoia you're displaying (especially given that A) it's by a well-known member of the Python community and B) it was published April 1).
  - jerf 17y ago
    As you agreed, it has visual similarities to a virus. That's all.
tel 17y ago
The contact email is also armin.ronacher+dontbelieveanythingontheinternet@active-4.com So.

by Gonsalu 17y ago

moe 17y ago

My first reflex when I saw this was to think that it's meant as a tongue-in-cheek sidekick on the recent microframework-craze. Still not sure about the intention, but as others have pointed out, yes it's an April's fools.

tlrobinson 17y ago
I should have announced my Bash microframework, martin, yesterday: http://github.com/tlrobinson/wwwoosh/blob/master/martin.sh http://github.com/tlrobinson/wwwoosh/blob/master/martin.sh

jerf 17y ago

What it looks like is a virus: http://github.com/denied/denied/blob/master/deny.py http://github.com/denied/denied/blob/master/deny.py I'm very much not saying that's what it is. Looking at the end it looks like an encoded zip file which the code extracts. Perhaps somebody else will be kind enough to run it and find out what it does. I'd feel too guilty, having told too many people not to do that.

kingkilr 17y ago
It's not a virus, it just unpacks wurkeug, jinja, simplejson, and probably some other stuff. Pretty much it's an epic hack.
ubernostrum 17y ago
What it looks like is a virus Because it happens to use a base64-encoded string to obscure some of what it's doing? Yes, there's malware which does that, but this is also such an ancient trick in humorous code obfuscation that it seems silly to jump to the level of paranoia you're displaying (especially given that A) it's by a well-known member of the Python community and B) it was published April 1).
- jerf 17y ago
  As you agreed, it has visual similarities to a virus. That's all.

tel 17y ago

The contact email is also armin.ronacher+dontbelieveanythingontheinternet@active-4.com So.