Re: Custom creates .emacs with poor mode

[Richard Stallman]

    If you start without a .emacs, customize something, and save the
    result, the .emacs that gets created has normal (umask?) permissions.
    I think it should be `g-r,o-r', since it can contain sensitive
    information.  An example is passwords, e.g. in the `mail-sources'
    variable.

This seems a bit paranoid to me.