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Re: A couple of questions and concerns about Emacs network security
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: A couple of questions and concerns about Emacs network security |
Date: |
Sat, 07 Jul 2018 19:46:49 -0400 |
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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.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
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