[w00t]

Yes, in most cases python backdoors are fairly useless. This one is small enough, though, you could concievably hide it in a sufficiently large project, and get people to run it.

[Equinox]

Yes, in most cases python backdoors are fairly useless. This one is small enough, though, you could concievably hide it in a sufficiently large project, and get people to run it.

You can still compress it, that is, if we are basing on "detectability" off of size.

[w00t]

Not while getting around firewalls with ease. By connecting to the attacker, versus your approach of running as a server, you don't have to worry about port forwarding and such, and you don't need to have root.