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Re: mark .dir-locals.el buffer or file as safe instead of variables as s
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: mark .dir-locals.el buffer or file as safe instead of variables as safe |
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Wed, 27 Jun 2018 05:33:59 +0300 |
> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 21:14:52 -0300
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> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Safe-File-Variables.html#Safe-File-Variables
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> I'm trying to wrap my head around this, and I, in my *very* humble
> opinion, think, it's a bad design decision.
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> and that's because:
> One just *do not trust variables*, only *those who modify it*.
I believe there's a possibility of someone's maliciously redirecting
your "trusted" file to another one, e.g. with a symlink.
IOW, we don't really know who modified the file and why.