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From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
To: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: package security auditing and isolation
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2017 21:57:38 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8WkpT9vr5Js4Uy=t+U2zv5gkk2FgCFkadFcTWXEwgd-Xg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h9211v1c.fsf@lifelogs.com>

On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 9:15 PM, Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> wrote:

> 2) establishing isolation levels in the C core. Simply put, not all
> packages need to be able to run shell commands, delete or modify files,
> and so on. When the user installs or updates a package, if the needed
> access levels change, that should be noted and acknowledged.

“This package is requesting the following permissions:

* Monitor all your keystrokes
* Modify buffer contents
* Access the kill ring
* Read and write files”



  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-04-06 14:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-06 14:15 package security auditing and isolation Ted Zlatanov
2017-04-06 14:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-04-06 14:57 ` Yuri Khan [this message]
2017-04-06 15:45   ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-04-06 18:19     ` Stefan Monnier
2017-04-06 19:26       ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-04-06 20:12         ` Stefan Monnier
2017-04-06 21:57           ` Ted Zlatanov
2017-04-07  6:58             ` Tim Cross
2017-04-06 20:17         ` Clément Pit-Claudel

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