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

[Richard Stallman]

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  > I think we should assume people generally know whether thugs with
  > torture chambers might be after them.

I agree, provided we encourage them to ask themselves the question.
Until a dictatorship gets totally and openly vicious, people have a
tendency to think things like, "They couldn't possibly consider me
important enough to do that to me."  So it would be good to ask
a question that would lead people to think about this, dismissing
that tendency.

                                           I see no reason to assume each
  > and every Emacs user is in this situation, and I see no reason to
  > annoy each and every Emacs user with alerts and prompts based on that
  > assumption.

I agree.

But we should ask each Emacs user to think about whether perse needs
this level of security.  We should not turn it off by default.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)