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Emacs Arbitrary Code Execution and How to Avoid It (eshelyaron.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

IDEs and such prompt the user whether they trust any new repositories they open. If Emacs had similar functionality, elisp eval could simply be disabled by default and users would then M-x trust-this-repository to permanently enable it again for the repo they're in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Plus we could also get rid of the hacky risky vs safe dir-locals system that fills up custom.el with clutter

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

..all y'all know exactly how to avoid an emacs vulnerability, but I'm afraid to VoIce My opinion

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

quit computers

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Vim?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Shhh don't make the forbidden sound here, little one

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

nano