[473] in bugtraq
Re: Stallman and enable-local-variables in bugtraq-digest V1 #64
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Ladwig)
Mon Dec 12 15:51:37 1994
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 1994 10:24:23 -0600
From: John Ladwig <jladwig@soils.umn.edu>
To: Wm Randolph Franklin <wrf@ecse.rpi.edu>
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: Wm Randolph Franklin's message <9412120032.AA28727@ecse.rpi.edu> of 11 December 1994
>>>>> 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
