its been a few days but thanks for response. My concern was not a random attacker but the stuff I run after git clone from github, without much thought, I might add. it is possible for hacker to hide malicious code in a innocent looking git repo for some hot new project. wait for some people to give root access inside their home or better yet office lan & add a cronjob to steal stuff nightly with a LLMs help?

In any case safest route is to always do a new shell (or a docker vm) for fun activities.