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From: | Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: | Re: Emacs project mission (was Re: "If you're still seeing problems, please reopen." [ |
Date: | Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:38:30 +0100 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes: > The specific problem here is that report-emacs-bug includes data that > might be sensitive. It would be good to remind people that they don't > have to send that data, and help them avoid it if/when they want to. > But let's do that in the simplest possible way. The "Recent messages" bit in the bug reports is a bomb just waiting to blow up. At some point somebody will be doing some mining of the bug repo for "interesting" messages and do a write-up of how horribly lax the GNU project it with people's privacy. And they'd be correct: I think including that bit in the bug report is indefensible. (Not to mention useless.) -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
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