From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The netsec thread Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 16:03:33 +0300 Message-ID: <83pnkwjaoq.fsf@gnu.org> References: <86pnzdrn8u.fsf@gmail.com> <834l36koak.fsf@gnu.org> <87pnlg7r83.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <87o90gd1us.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <838srkb64w.fsf@gnu.org> <83wof4jcrd.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="101903"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Robert Pluim Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 23 15:06:19 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1i19Gi-000QCv-I0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Aug 2019 15:06:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55846 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i19Gh-0000WB-24 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Aug 2019 09:06:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36399) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1i19Dv-0000Vd-QF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Aug 2019 09:03:27 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:42208) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i19Dv-0003YB-Hw; Fri, 23 Aug 2019 09:03:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1949 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1i19Du-0006hK-PE; Fri, 23 Aug 2019 09:03:23 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Robert Pluim on Fri, 23 Aug 2019 14:39:05 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:239520 Archived-At: > From: Robert Pluim > Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 14:39:05 +0200 > > > (I removed 'mouse' from Lars' email address) Lars, please do something about that, relies to your messages bounce. > >> +++ > >> ** New user option 'nsm-trust-local-network'. > >> Allows skipping Network Security Manager checks for hosts on your > >> local subnet(s). DEFAULTS TO NIL. There is a good reason for that, > >> ensure you know what you are doing before you change it. > > Eli> I don't believe in "security by obscurity", so I think this should be > Eli> in NEWS. Especially since it's in the manual. > > I said 'not advertise too much', not 'no documentation' (and itʼs not > in the manual). If it is not in the manual, why is it marked "+++"? > Eli> +++ > Eli> ** New user option 'nsm-trust-local-network'. > Eli> Allows skipping Network Security Manager checks for hosts on your > Eli> local subnet(s). It defaults to nil. Usually, there should be no > Eli> need to set this non-nil, and doing that risks opening your local > Eli> network connections to attacks. So be sure you know what you are > Eli> doing before changing the value. > > Sure. Iʼll give it a few days for people to wordsmith it some more. Thanks.