From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Matthias Dahl <ml_emacs-lists@binary-island.eu>
Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: security of the emacs package system, elpa, melpa and marmalade
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 17:11:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1VQkkW-0000U6-4w@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <524994F8.8070506@binary-island.eu> (message from Matthias Dahl on Mon, 30 Sep 2013 17:12:56 +0200)
[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider
[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,
[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example.
> I think that we should warn users that it is risky to use packages
> from archives that don't supervise the code that gets put in them, or
> that don't use signing.
+1
But imho, this would also include ELPA because there is not really a
control process in place. A mail gets sent that some person from the
community needs to thoroughly read/check. There is no guarantee that
someone will actually do this.
I think we should maintain ELPA with the same level of care that we
apply to code in Emacs, and sign the downloads the same way GNU
packages are signed. Then we can tell people that they shouldn't
hesitate to download packages from ELPA.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
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USA
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Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-30 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-23 7:30 security of the emacs package system, elpa, melpa and marmalade Matthias Dahl
2013-09-23 14:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-25 8:11 ` Matthias Dahl
2013-09-25 17:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-25 18:31 ` Matthias Dahl
2013-09-25 22:42 ` Bastien
2013-09-26 9:02 ` Matthias Dahl
2013-09-27 14:02 ` Bastien
2013-09-27 14:17 ` Matthias Dahl
2013-09-27 14:19 ` Bastien
2013-09-27 18:29 ` Matthias Dahl
2013-09-26 1:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-26 9:02 ` Matthias Dahl
2013-09-26 9:21 ` Óscar Fuentes
2013-09-26 14:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-27 14:17 ` Matthias Dahl
2013-09-27 15:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-09-28 14:15 ` Richard Stallman
2013-09-30 15:12 ` Matthias Dahl
2013-09-30 21:11 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2013-09-30 15:31 ` Matthias Dahl
2013-09-26 1:12 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-09-26 9:02 ` Matthias Dahl
2013-09-27 7:10 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-09-27 14:18 ` Matthias Dahl
2013-09-27 17:31 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-09-30 15:25 ` Matthias Dahl
2013-10-01 2:19 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-09-27 20:12 ` chad
2013-09-26 9:31 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-09-26 16:25 ` Richard Stallman
2013-09-27 14:18 ` Matthias Dahl
2013-09-27 15:04 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-09-13 17:57 ` Thomas Koch
2013-09-29 10:12 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-09-29 9:53 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-09-29 17:49 ` Daiki Ueno
2013-09-29 18:18 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-09-30 13:25 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-09-30 14:50 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-09-30 15:10 ` Matthias Dahl
2013-09-30 17:18 ` Ted Zlatanov
2013-10-01 14:03 ` Matthias Dahl
2013-10-02 2:45 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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