From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Lisp's future Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 23:41:14 -0400 Message-ID: References: <54193A70.9020901@member.fsf.org> <871tqneyvl.fsf@netris.org> <87d2a54t1m.fsf@yeeloong.lan> <83lhotme1e.fsf@gnu.org> <871tql17uw.fsf@yeeloong.lan> <838uktm9gw.fsf@gnu.org> <87h9zgarvp.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83y4srjaot.fsf@gnu.org> <83r3yhiu8c.fsf@gnu.org> <83siiw9c6t.fsf@gnu.org> <83zjd3846e.fsf@gnu.org> <8738auyxke.fsf@netris.org> <874mvaoys7.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87h9z91y52.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <871tqdpjoi.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <874mv91n6a.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87zjd1ny1h.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1413171689 15236 80.91.229.3 (13 Oct 2014 03:41:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 03:41:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 13 05:41:22 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XdWVc-0003B8-EE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Oct 2014 05:41:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60024 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XdWVb-0001au-R0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Oct 2014 23:41:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44431) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XdWVY-0001ae-0I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Oct 2014 23:41:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XdWVX-0002bv-1f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Oct 2014 23:41:15 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:52839) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XdWVW-0002br-Uv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Oct 2014 23:41:14 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XdWVW-0003CZ-EH; Sun, 12 Oct 2014 23:41:14 -0400 In-reply-to: <87zjd1ny1h.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (stephen@xemacs.org) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:175303 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Sigh. It is *Emacs* that assumes the world is full of valid data, and happily shovels any hazmat it receives on to the next user or program without validation. And you're right, it *is* a security problem. It is not much of a security problem in Emacs. The defaults for the standard Guile primitives could be strict, and the defaults for some Emacs Lisp functions could be flexible. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.