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Now I'm curious. Can you elaborate?


I can, since I share the viewpoint. For me as a consumer, the security doesn’t affect me negatively at all. For me as a developer, working often on incomplete, immature, broken or partially broken systems, it often gets in the way. Because those things often can’t reach the high barrier of consumer-grade security - maybe because they’re broken!

So to interact with those systems via HTML I have do lots of “yes I know it’s insecure, I’m trying to fix that, let me past.” As the barrier is getting higher, sometimes I simply can’t get past.

This is a pain.

Emacs, let’s be kind, doesn’t have a consumer audience. It has an audience working on immature/developing/broken systems.


Ah, then you might like the new `nsm-trust-local-network` knob I'm putting in. My "netsec" branch will also trust localhost unconditionally.




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