From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: cdelia@dc.uba.ar
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: mark .dir-locals.el buffer or file as safe instead of variables as safe
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 05:33:59 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83fu19q7oo.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d0ebecade06de0dcdf602bc66d0fb147@dc.uba.ar> (cdelia@dc.uba.ar)
> Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 21:14:52 -0300
> From: cdelia@dc.uba.ar
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Safe-File-Variables.html#Safe-File-Variables
>
> I'm trying to wrap my head around this, and I, in my *very* humble
> opinion, think, it's a bad design decision.
>
> and that's because:
> One just *do not trust variables*, only *those who modify it*.
I believe there's a possibility of someone's maliciously redirecting
your "trusted" file to another one, e.g. with a symlink.
IOW, we don't really know who modified the file and why.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-27 2:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-27 0:14 mark .dir-locals.el buffer or file as safe instead of variables as safe cdelia
2018-06-27 2:33 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-06-27 4:24 ` Phil Sainty
2018-06-27 4:34 ` Phil Sainty
2018-06-27 6:36 ` Phil Sainty
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