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In article <3188@charon.cwi.nl>, guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum) writes:
>There is a feature of GNU Emacs, enabled by default, which makes a
>very convenient vehicle for Trojan horses.  The facility is described
>in the 'file variables' section of the info tree, and lets you execute
>any Emacs Lisp code when a file is loaded into a buffer.
> ...
>Shouldn't this feature be protected in some way, e.g., by asking the
>user permission to execute such code (if it is more than just setting
>a major mode)?

Yes, the default value of inhibit-local-variables should be nil.  Add
the following to your .emacs:

(setq inhibit-local-variables t)

And it will ask you if you want to set local variables.

Also, this item from the elisp archive:

hack-locals       88-12-04
     Carl Witty, <cwitty@csli.stanford.edu>
     tut.cis.ohio-state.edu:pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/misc/hack-locals.el.Z
     Show local variables on screen

Will display the variables and ask if you want them set.

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