Re: A couple of questions and concerns about Emacs network security

[Paul Eggert]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>

> Web browsing is a niche application in Emacs, while
> NSM is about all kinds of network connections, not just those created
> on behalf of EWW.

Absolutely. Emacs has a more-general security problem than Firefox does.

However, when Emacs is used to browse the web, Firefox is a good model for what 
Emacs's default security should be. We should not waste our time (and our users' 
security and/or time) reinventing that wheel, nor should we be excessively 
cautious about improving Emacs's default web-browsing security to be something 
more like Firefox circa 2018 instead of like Netscape Navigator circa 1998 (I 
exaggerate for the purposes of conversation :-).