From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: David Engster <deng@randomsample.de>
Cc: fitzsim@fitzsim.org, winkler@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: oauth2 support for Emacs email clients
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 23:00:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1mDeTj-0001Gw-KP@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sfzhekgv.fsf@randomsample> (message from David Engster on Tue, 10 Aug 2021 11:07:44 +0200)
[[[ 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 haven't tried yet, but I suspect using Emacs in my organization would
> > be harder because, what GUID would I use?
> Well, you could just use Thunderbird's. It's all right here:
> https://github.com/mozilla/releases-comm-central/blob/master/mailnews/base/src/OAuth2Providers.jsm
> You shouldn't though, because that could get you in trouble. While all
> this stuff is essentially security theatre, good luck explaining that to
> your IT security department...
It's possible that you're right. But, because your statement is takes
a leap and doesn't describe the logical steps, it is hard to verify
that.
Would you like to help determine whether that approach is practical?
And, if not, why not?
For instance, why would the organization's IT security team care
whether he runs Thunderbird, or runs Emacs and tells some company it is
Thunderbird?
How would it even notice that he's using Emacs rather than Thunderbird?
Emacs can be thought of as a modified version of Thunderbird, right?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-11 3:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-08-03 5:00 oauth2 support for Emacs email clients Roland Winkler
2021-08-03 6:32 ` Uwe Brauer
2021-08-03 8:21 ` Andrew Cohen
2021-08-03 19:38 ` Roland Winkler
2021-08-04 0:56 ` Andrew Cohen
2021-08-04 7:27 ` Andrew Cohen
2021-08-04 7:41 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-08-04 23:12 ` Andrew Cohen
2021-08-04 7:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-04 7:21 ` Andrew Cohen
2021-08-05 10:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-03 9:00 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-08-03 19:27 ` Roland Winkler
2021-08-03 22:02 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-08-05 0:21 ` Andrew Cohen
2021-08-10 14:39 ` Roland Winkler
2021-08-11 0:43 ` Andrew Cohen
2021-08-11 0:54 ` Andrew Cohen
2021-08-12 2:16 ` Richard Stallman
2021-08-12 2:33 ` Andrew Cohen
2021-08-03 20:21 ` Arthur Miller
2021-08-03 20:40 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-08-03 21:14 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2021-08-03 21:19 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-08-14 10:46 ` Richard Stallman
2021-08-14 11:12 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-08-14 11:47 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-08-15 3:04 ` Richard Stallman
2021-08-15 3:04 ` Making your own application credentials as a user Richard Stallman
2021-08-15 4:10 ` Tim Cross
2021-08-03 9:20 ` oauth2 support for Emacs email clients Eric S Fraga
2021-08-03 11:17 ` Tim Cross
2021-08-03 12:55 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-08-03 13:14 ` tomas
2021-08-05 14:15 ` Richard Stallman
2021-08-03 15:04 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-08-03 19:45 ` Roland Winkler
2021-08-04 6:58 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-08-03 19:41 ` Roland Winkler
2021-08-04 6:59 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-08-04 14:45 ` Thomas Fitzsimmons
2021-08-04 22:45 ` Tim Cross
2021-08-04 23:29 ` Thomas Fitzsimmons
2021-08-05 7:45 ` Ulrich Mueller
2021-08-08 3:58 ` Richard Stallman
2021-08-09 8:30 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-08-12 2:15 ` Richard Stallman
2021-08-12 18:59 ` Roland Winkler
2021-08-03 23:38 ` Richard Stallman
2021-08-08 6:01 ` Roland Winkler
2021-08-08 6:30 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-08-08 23:48 ` Roland Winkler
2021-08-09 0:01 ` Andrew Cohen
2021-08-08 8:52 ` David Engster
2021-08-08 14:22 ` Thomas Fitzsimmons
2021-08-08 14:47 ` David Engster
2021-08-08 15:30 ` Thomas Fitzsimmons
2021-08-08 16:00 ` David Engster
2021-08-08 23:31 ` Roland Winkler
2021-08-10 2:01 ` Thomas Fitzsimmons
2021-08-10 9:07 ` David Engster
2021-08-10 14:41 ` Thomas Fitzsimmons
2021-08-10 15:56 ` David Engster
2021-08-11 6:37 ` Alexandre Garreau
2021-08-11 3:00 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2021-08-11 9:57 ` David Engster
2021-08-13 3:10 ` Richard Stallman
2021-08-11 2:55 ` Richard Stallman
2021-08-14 15:00 ` Thomas Fitzsimmons
2021-08-14 15:26 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-08-08 16:05 ` Tim Cross
2021-08-09 8:39 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-08-10 3:29 ` Richard Stallman
2021-08-10 6:08 ` Tim Cross
2021-08-10 14:18 ` Roland Winkler
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