Re: security of the emacs package system, elpa, melpa and marmalade

[Richard Stallman]

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I think that we should warn users that it is risky to use packages
from archives that don't supervise the code that gets put in them, or
that don't use signing.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
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