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Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?
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Bob Proulx |
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Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal? |
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Wed, 8 May 2013 20:48:54 -0600 |
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Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > But emacs will always ask you if it should proceed due to that issue.
> > It will never do it automatically. It isn't intrinsically insecure.
>
> Well, that depends how paranoid you are. It used to be intrinsically
> insecure (only prompting the user for things known to be dicey) and has
> been improved over the years (always prompting unless told that it's
> safe), but there are so many variables marked as "safe" that might be
> used in unexpected ways by so many packages that "intrinsically secure"
> sounds naive.
I didn't say "intrinsically secure". I said, "It isn't intrinsically INsecure."
Which isn't the same thing. A couple of quotes come to mind.
"It is hard to make things foolproof because fools are so clever."
"You can make things foolproof. But you can't make them damn foolproof."
:-)
> More specifically, I'd be *very* surprised if there aren't any "big
> security holes" waiting to be exploited in Emacs.
Show me the bug report. Unless there is a bug report on *something*,
anything, then I call shenanigans and say it is nothing but spreading
FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt). Because just using the computer is a
security hole.
Which reminds me of another posting. There is only one truly secure
computer system.
http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/papers/a1-firewall/index.html
> Stefan "who uses Zile when running as root"
I don't know. I heard on the Internet that Zile has security
vulnerabilities. (Part of the FUD, counter-FUD, campaign. I really
don't have anything against Zile.)
Bob
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