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

[Paul Eggert]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> this discussion is about the NSM, not about EWW.  NSM is
> used for every net connection, not just those on behalf of EWW.  If
> you are arguing that NSM should apply different settings to EWW
> connections and to the other kind, then this is a separate issue.

I'm not arguing that, no. All I'm saying is that the EWW defaults should be 
similar to what Firefox and the other browsers use; that's just common sense. If 
there are good reasons for the NSM to use different default settings for non-EWW 
connections, then of course the NSM should do that. Inertia is not a good reason 
here, though, as attacks are now more sophisticated and settings defaults that 
were OK years ago are not OK now.