Re: Emacs in a Corporate Environment

[Po Lu]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2023 10:21:08 +0200
>> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>> From:  <tomas@tuxteam.de>
>> 
>> > Seriously: you should talk to your CISO, if you have one.  You _think_
>> > you control everything on your "civilised" OS, but that's an illusion.
>> > Unless you build your machines yourself, from the ground up, and also
>> > code all the software that runs on it.
>> 
>> You just moved the goalposts. We had it about paging files (which in
>> my case would be a partition, but I disgress). I control that. I don't
>> control the IME, alas.
>
> No, the original issue was about whether some stuff Emacs has in
> memory could end up on your local disk somewhere.  Pagefiles are just
> one such mechanism, but it isn't the only one.

I think you're all missing the most obvious snafu (which has actually
gotten me in trouble with our security folks): auto-save files.