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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Qiantan Hong <qhong@mit.edu>
Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Access control in Emacs?
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2021 10:49:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr1drfdbo.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FF611A69-0749-4CB0-88F2-BA18CEF756C9@mit.edu> (Qiantan Hong's message of "Tue, 14 Sep 2021 12:49:27 +0000")

> I’m adding more powerful features to crdt.el including buffer local variable
> synchronizations and arbitrary remote command/function call,

Given the way Emacs is designed/structured this is a recipe for big
gaping security holes.  It can be OK to allow such things for *very*
specific cases (a few specific well understood variables), but even such
a "whitelist" is a problem because it requires careful and
long term maintenance.


        Stefan




  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-09-14 14:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-14 12:49 Access control in Emacs? Qiantan Hong
2021-09-14 14:09 ` Phil Sainty
2021-09-14 14:28 ` dick
2021-09-14 15:05   ` Qiantan Hong
2021-09-14 15:52     ` dick
2021-09-14 16:02       ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-14 14:49 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2021-09-15 20:11   ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-15 20:21   ` Robin Tarsiger
2021-09-14 18:13 ` Christine Lemmer-Webber
2021-09-14 19:59   ` tomas
2021-09-15 23:16   ` Qiantan Hong
2021-09-16  2:16     ` Christine Lemmer-Webber
2021-09-18  0:29       ` Richard Stallman

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