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Re: Stallman and enable-local-variables in bugtraq-digest V1 #64
From: jladwig () soils umn edu (John Ladwig)
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 1994 10:24:23 -0600
On Sun, 11 Dec 1994 19:32:16 -0500, Wm Randolph Franklin <wrf () ecse rpi edu> said:
WRF> Concerning: >> From: Dave Goldberg <dsg () blackbird mitre org> >> Date: Tue, 06 Dec 1994 09:00:26 -0500 >> Subject: Re: Virus's -- This is an Emacs bomb >> >> Yeah, I've always wondered why Stallman et al, when they wrote v19, >> left enable-local-variables to t when they should have followed what >> they did with enable-local-eval which is set to query the user. At >> least it can be turned off or set to query in site-start.el or >> default.el. WRF> Stallman seems prone to that sort of error. One of his releases a WRF> few years back had something like a 'chmod 777' buried deep in a WRF> shell file. I can't remember the details, but do remember that WRF> the person who reported to the net it was outraged. Seemed to WRF> think that it was deliberate. rms has said to me in mail that he "doesn't like security". Would that I (and others) had that luxury. -jml
Current thread:
- Re: Stallman and enable-local-variables in bugtraq-digest V1 #64 Wm Randolph Franklin (Dec 11)
- Re: Stallman and enable-local-variables in bugtraq-digest V1 #64 John Ladwig (Dec 12)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Stallman and enable-local-variables in bugtraq-digest V1 #64 Mitch Wright (Dec 12)
- Re: Stallman and enable-local-variables in bugtraq-digest V1 #64 Timothy Newsham (Dec 13)
- Re: Stallman and enable-local-variables in bugtraq-digest V1 #64 Paul 'Shag' Walmsley (Dec 13)
- Re: Stallman and enable-local-variables in bugtraq-digest V1 #64 Timothy Newsham (Dec 13)
- Re: Stallman and enable-local-variables in bugtraq-digest V1 #64 John Ladwig (Dec 13)