Local variable security

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From: macrakis
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 1990 16:13

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GNU Emacs 18.53.11 on NeXT 1.0.1

Although hack-local-variables does protect against eval's when you're
root, it doesn't protect against setting hooks (like find-file-hook)
which could cause just as much (planned or unplanned) havoc.

I don't have a general solution, just pointing out the problem.

	-s

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