Re: Access control in Emacs?

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > I’m adding more powerful features to crdt.el including buffer local 
variable
  > > synchronizations and arbitrary remote command/function call,

  > Given the way Emacs is designed/structured this is a recipe for big
  > gaping security holes.  It can be OK to allow such things for *very*
  > specific cases (a few specific well understood variables), but even such
  > a "whitelist" is a problem because it requires careful and
  > long term maintenance.

This is a crucial issue, so we should keep it in mind if we change
anything that affects the handling of buffer-local variables.

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