Re: Emacs in a Corporate Environment

[Ruijie Yu via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

On Apr 15, 2023, at 20:06, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> wrote:
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>> On 2023-04-15, at 13:16, Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
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>>>> Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2023 10:21:08 +0200
>>>> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>>>> From:  <tomas@tuxteam.de>
>>>> 
>>>>> Seriously: you should talk to your CISO, if you have one.  You _think_
>>>>> you control everything on your "civilised" OS, but that's an illusion.
>>>>> Unless you build your machines yourself, from the ground up, and also
>>>>> code all the software that runs on it.
>>>> 
>>>> You just moved the goalposts. We had it about paging files (which in
>>>> my case would be a partition, but I disgress). I control that. I don't
>>>> control the IME, alas.
>>> 
>>> No, the original issue was about whether some stuff Emacs has in
>>> memory could end up on your local disk somewhere.  Pagefiles are just
>>> one such mechanism, but it isn't the only one.
>> 
>> I think you're all missing the most obvious snafu (which has actually
>> gotten me in trouble with our security folks): auto-save files.
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> Good point!  Is there a way to disable them wholesale on remote machines
> (when using TRAMP)?

I believe we have connection-local variables for that. 

> TIA,
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> Marcin Borkowski
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