From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, "'Eli Zaretskii'" <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Recent fix in handling vc-tor
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 12:51:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tu4z7kc0.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1obCdz-0003dC-FU@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 21 Sep 2022 23:12:55 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> The bug that made setting vc-tor a no-op was particularly treacherous.
> since the feature led people to believe they got some protection
> for their privacy, but it didn';t actually work.
>
> I think we should release a 28.3 with this change, and fairly soon,
> even if no other changes are needed.
vc-tor is for using VC commands via Tor?
Emacs does not, in general, work well with Tor -- Emacs leaks all over
the place (especially w.r.t. DNS lookups), so somebody trying to retain
full privacy by setting that variable will probably be found out anyway.
But it does seem like a pretty bad problem, even if I expect that
virtually nobody is using vc-tor, so perhaps we should do an Emacs 28.3
release. I'm not at all sure, though. Eli, what do you think?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-22 10:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-22 3:12 Recent fix in handling vc-tor Richard Stallman
2022-09-22 10:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-09-22 10:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-23 3:16 ` Richard Stallman
2022-09-22 11:17 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-09-22 11:42 ` Stefan Kangas
2022-09-23 3:16 ` Richard Stallman
2022-09-23 8:34 ` Robert Pluim
2022-09-22 12:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
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