Comment 6 for bug 1452115

Actually I confirm this on current ubuntu bionic.

Would someone please reach the ubuntu security team and verify this is an intended choice?

evilaliv3@evilaliv3:~$ hardening-check /usr/bin/python3
/usr/bin/python3:
 Position Independent Executable: no, normal executable!
 Stack protected: yes
 Fortify Source functions: yes (some protected functions found)
 Read-only relocations: yes
 Immediate binding: no, not found!

hardening-check /usr/bin/python2
/usr/bin/python2:
 Position Independent Executable: yes
 Stack protected: yes
 Fortify Source functions: yes (some protected functions found)
 Read-only relocations: yes
 Immediate binding: yes