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[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

eMacs wasn’t compromised!

[–] sping@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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 day ago (1 children)

All of our modern infrastructure is.

[–] sping@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago
[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day 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.