In short, run pdflatex in a VM. Shouldn't it rather say that pdflatex shouldn't be run on arbitrary inputs? I suppose that funny things can happen upon openin

In short, run pdflatex in a VM. Shouldn't it rather say that pdflatex shouldn't be run on arbitrary inputs? I suppose that funny things can happen upon opening arbitrary PDF files as well, or opening arbitrary image formats, or executing arbitrary code.