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

[Richard Stallman]

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  > What exactly is the inconvenience you anticipate if an Emacs IMAP
  > user connecting to google rejects a certificate that isn't vouched
  > for by the CT mechanism? Can you explain _precisely_ why you insist
  > that it is necessary to have different defaults than everyone else
  > uses?

Here is an idea.  Let's implement the browser-like security in master
as an option disabled by default.  Then Eli and others can try it out
for a few weeks and report each inconvenience.

Then we will see how much, or how little, inconvenience results from
this mode of operation.


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Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
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