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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2018 11:15:17 -0400
> From: "Perry E. Metzger" <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden, Paul Eggert
>  <address@hidden>, Emacs-Devel devel <address@hidden>, Lars
>  Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden>
> 
> So, I'm a security professional, partially responsible for the
> creation of some of the protocols in question, I use Emacs for
> purposes like reading email and the like, and I'm concerned that I
> want my security to be good and that the current mechanisms don't
> really give me what I need. And no, I don't want to be asked when I'm
> presented with a cert that Google specifically said isn't valid, I
> want it to be rejected so I won't accidentally say yes at 3am when
> I'm exhausted and not paying attention.

There's nothing to prevent you from customizing your Emacs to do
precisely what you want.  Being a security professional, you are
probably qualified to do that better than moist of us.

My concern is mainly about the rest of us.