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[-] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 month ago

eMacs wasn’t compromised!

[-] sping@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I f'ing love emacs, but don't get cocky. It's a security disaster.

Well, if you use any packages fetched from the net anyway.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

All of our modern infrastructure is.

[-] sping@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago
[-] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

I was being like 99% facetious and the 1% serious has more to do with how eMacs updates are distributed as compared to Notepad++. To your point, any non-vetted packages would be a huge source of risk, and even vetted packages should be monitored.

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