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From: rms@AI.MIT.EDU
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Subject: Security problem in Emacs?
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Date: 8 Sep 89 23:03:08 GMT
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There never was a bug in Emacs.  Someone at Stoll's site installed
movemail with setuid to root, something that movemail was not (at that time)
designed to handle.  (It is now.)