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Re: Off Topic (Was Re: Emacs/Mutt and Efail or OpenPGP is safer than S/M
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Off Topic (Was Re: Emacs/Mutt and Efail or OpenPGP is safer than S/MIME?) |
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Mon, 21 May 2018 22:12:33 -0400 |
[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
> 2. Embedded Javascript. Increasingly a problem, especially for browser
> based email clients. Software like 'ghostery' can help reduce the threat,
> but Javascript is becoming an increasingly more pervasive virus (still
> frustrates me that Adobe PDFs support embedded Javascript!).
Free software for PDF should not run Javascript code, at least not
without an individual request that the user makes, after seeing a
warning that it is dangerous.
Would someone like to check that the free PDF-reading programs satisfy
this requisite? It is not really about Emacs, but the only way it can be done
is if someone does it.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)