Re: One vs many directories

[Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide]

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

> * 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.

That isn’t what I meant with my question. What I meant is: Why is it a
security issue that the variable cannot only be at the exact end of the
file but instead can be in the last 3000 characters of the file?

Best wishes,
Arne
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