I have a program installed called youtube-dl, and it's a python script. It requires root privileges to update itself, but the code itself is obfuscated. The first two lines of the file are like this when opened with vi:
Code:
#!/usr/bin/env python
PK^C^D^T^@^@^@^H^@Ú<9c><Av²9ûã^]^@^@ù_^@^@^Q^@^\^@FileDownloader.pyUT ^@^C«àeP<97>
I don't really trust running something like this as root if I don't know the source (I'm not too good at writing Python but I can read it well enough to tell if it's malicious). If it's legal to do so, is there any way I can reverse the obfuscated code, or is this just compiled for speed (.pyc or something)?
So does anyone know of youtube-dl is safe to use? I downloaded it with apt-get, but I'd still like to make sure.
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