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: ELPA policy Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 16:05:01 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87ziyuaqhl.fsf@petton.fr>> > <87lha5snji.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> > <87d1vhsmuj.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> > <878u65slue.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> > <874mgtsjwn.fsf@isaac.fritz.box> > <867flp8nb7.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <9e33129a-07d0-4abe-a94e-32d6d881519b@default> > <86bnb06g7g.fsf@stephe-leake.org>> > <86oaezemp9.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <86pozcc1ln.fsf@stephe-leake.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447656506 4056 80.91.229.3 (16 Nov 2015 06:48:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 06:48:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jwiegley@gmail.com, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Leake Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 16 07:48:17 2015 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 1ZyDaK-0006Fj-0H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2015 07:48:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45892 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZyDaJ-0000ml-He for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Nov 2015 01:48:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56914) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zxi0e-0008Hu-GG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Nov 2015 16:05:21 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zxi0d-0003Vw-O8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Nov 2015 16:05:20 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59127) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zxi0M-0003Po-8l; Sat, 14 Nov 2015 16:05:02 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1Zxi0L-000357-DR; Sat, 14 Nov 2015 16:05:01 -0500 In-reply-to: <86pozcc1ln.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (message from Stephen Leake on Sat, 14 Nov 2015 04:33:08 -0600) 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:194503 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. ]]] > I suppose there's no a priori reason to assume one is more secure than > the other; maybe I'm just reacting to all the news reports about hacking. Would you please call that "cracking"? Hacking is what we do as Emacs developers. See http://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html. Anyway, now I understand your concern, and I think it's a valid one. That's why I've proposed another solution. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.