From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: eww Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 16:10:54 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87d2rkb1pi.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <87fvwfa3ev.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <874ncucrlz@ch.ristopher.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1371759063 30009 80.91.229.3 (20 Jun 2013 20:11:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 20:11:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 20 22:11:03 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UplCB-0000Zv-9y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 22:11:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43735 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UplCA-0002h6-Pl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 16:11:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50457) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UplC5-0002gm-NE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 16:10:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UplC4-0004to-D1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 16:10:57 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:3549) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UplC4-0004ta-4u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 16:10:56 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFpZVy/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiB4GwS2RCgOkeoFegxM X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFFpZVy/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiB4GwS2RCgOkeoFegxM X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="16825700" Original-Received: from 69-165-149-114.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.149.114]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 20 Jun 2013 16:10:50 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 05D18630ED; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 16:10:55 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:17:06 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:160775 Archived-At: > Now, eww won't store things in on disk, but if we're storing all this > stuff in memory indefinitely, we're leaving the users open for various > attacks on their privacy. Sounds highly hypothetical. If/when eww can be used to access such sites, maybe we can start worrying, but then even if you don't keep it in live data, the sensitive data may linger around in "garbage/free" memory. If you need to worry about that, you need to worry about a lot more than that. Stefan