Re: One vs many directories

[Jean Louis]

* Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de> [2020-11-24 21:51]:
> 
> Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:
> >> The start of the local variables list should be no more than 3000
> >> > characters from the end of the file
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Given the length of the email, I guess this is why Emacs saw the variables
> >> as being within the correct range.
> >
> > Yes thank you. I was thinking Emacs will do that only in files where
> > it recognizes some comments or no comments and that variables need
> > to be pretty down in the file, on the bottom. Now I learn it is not
> > so.
> >
> > That is security issue.
> 
> Why is it a security issue? The variables do need to be close to the end
> — 3000 characters is only about 50 lines.

Emacs users, Org users on our mailing lists are not so private. Their
names and email addresses are in the public database. Spammer can
construct phishing type of an email, including something like Org news
or something and send such email to users. Among let us say 3000
people there will be percentage of users that will say Y to invoke the
local variables due to lack of knowing what is it doing to computer.

After that, anything becomes possible, including intrusion into
computer, capturing all email addresses, passwords, sending spam
emails from computer and so on.