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Fake recruiter coding tests target devs with malicious Python packages

• zahlman 2y ago
  > As RL researchers mentioned in our earlier discussion, this feature poses a risk. First, it is more difficult to scan compiled Python files than plaintext files, as they are packed into a binary format, making them unreadable without specialized tools. This is a strange claim to make, given that one such "specialized tool" is provided with Python's own standard library (the `dis` module).