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From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs in a Corporate Environment
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2023 14:04:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87edol5p2u.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87edoliefa.fsf@yahoo.com>


On 2023-04-15, at 13:16, Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> 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.

Good point!  Is there a way to disable them wholesale on remote machines
(when using TRAMP)?

TIA,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl



  reply	other threads:[~2023-04-15 12:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-12 19:48 Emacs in a Corporate Environment Yuan Cao
2023-04-12 20:10 ` Corwin Brust
2023-04-12 20:48   ` John Yates
2023-04-12 21:33     ` Yuan Cao
2023-04-13  0:08       ` Corwin Brust
2023-04-13 14:35         ` Marcin Borkowski
2023-04-14 14:36           ` Michael Albinus
2023-04-14 14:52             ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-14 15:08               ` Óscar Fuentes
2023-04-14 15:47                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-14 16:11               ` tomas
2023-04-15  6:12                 ` Marcin Borkowski
2023-04-15  7:31                   ` tomas
2023-04-15  9:12                     ` Marcin Borkowski
2023-04-15  6:11               ` Marcin Borkowski
2023-04-15  7:17                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-15  7:34                   ` tomas
2023-04-15  7:59                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-15  8:21                       ` tomas
2023-04-15  9:41                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-15 11:16                           ` Po Lu
2023-04-15 12:04                             ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2023-04-15 12:18                               ` Ruijie Yu via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2023-04-15 13:22                               ` tomas
2023-04-15 18:45                               ` Michael Albinus
2023-04-15  6:10             ` Marcin Borkowski
2023-04-15 21:14             ` Björn Bidar
2023-04-16  7:51               ` Michael Albinus
2023-04-13 14:23       ` Marcin Borkowski
2023-04-13 17:23         ` Yuan Cao
2023-04-12 20:52 ` Jean Louis

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