From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@online.de>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: security of the emacs package system, elpa, melpa and marmalade
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:31:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5243FEF5.6050009@online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d2nw1j3b.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
Am 26.09.2013 03:12, schrieb Stephen J. Turnbull:
> Matthias Dahl writes:
> > Hello Stefan...
> >
> > > Security problems in Emacs are everywhere, indeed.
> >
> > Actually not quite the statement one wants to read _ever_ about the
> > software one loves to use. ;)
> >
> > The question that is bugging me now: Why is that? Since Emacs, imho,
> > addresses a more technical audience and is maintained by professionals,
> > I wouldn't expect such a thing, actually.
>
> Then your model of security is inadequate. Software is *inherently*
> insecure. [ ... ]
That's it.
BTW why don't we drive armored cars in daily life, if armored chars are designed to be more secure?
Because experiences in a dry and rocky region proved the opposite.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-26 9:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-23 7:30 security of the emacs package system, elpa, melpa and marmalade Matthias Dahl
2013-09-23 14:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-25 8:11 ` Matthias Dahl
2013-09-25 17:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-25 18:31 ` Matthias Dahl
2013-09-25 22:42 ` Bastien
2013-09-26 9:02 ` Matthias Dahl
2013-09-27 14:02 ` Bastien
2013-09-27 14:17 ` Matthias Dahl
2013-09-27 14:19 ` Bastien
2013-09-27 18:29 ` Matthias Dahl
2013-09-26 1:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-26 9:02 ` Matthias Dahl
2013-09-26 9:21 ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-09-26 14:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-27 14:17 ` Matthias Dahl
2013-09-27 15:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-28 14:15 ` Richard Stallman
2013-09-30 15:12 ` Matthias Dahl
2013-09-30 21:11 ` Richard Stallman
2013-09-30 15:31 ` Matthias Dahl
2013-09-26 1:12 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-09-26 9:02 ` Matthias Dahl
2013-09-27 7:10 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-09-27 14:18 ` Matthias Dahl
2013-09-27 17:31 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-09-30 15:25 ` Matthias Dahl
2013-10-01 2:19 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-09-27 20:12 ` chad
2013-09-26 9:31 ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
2013-09-26 16:25 ` Richard Stallman
2013-09-27 14:18 ` Matthias Dahl
2013-09-27 15:04 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-09-13 17:57 ` Thomas Koch
2013-09-29 10:12 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-09-29 9:53 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-09-29 17:49 ` Daiki Ueno
2013-09-29 18:18 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-09-30 13:25 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-09-30 14:50 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-09-30 15:10 ` Matthias Dahl
2013-09-30 17:18 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-10-01 14:03 ` Matthias Dahl
2013-10-02 2:45 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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