Re: Recent fix in handling vc-tor

[Philip Kaludercic]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> The bug that made setting vc-tor a no-op was particularly treacherous.
>> since the feature led people to believe they got some protection
>> for their privacy, but it didn';t actually work.
>>
>> I think we should release a 28.3 with this change, and fairly soon,
>> even if no other changes are needed.
>
> vc-tor is for using VC commands via Tor?
>
> Emacs does not, in general, work well with Tor -- Emacs leaks all over
> the place (especially w.r.t. DNS lookups), so somebody trying to retain
> full privacy by setting that variable will probably be found out anyway.

All `vc-tor' does is wrap a vc program invocation using torsocks.  If
that is leaky, then torsocks is broken.

> But it does seem like a pretty bad problem, even if I expect that
> virtually nobody is using vc-tor, so perhaps we should do an Emacs 28.3
> release.  I'm not at all sure, though.  Eli, what do you think?