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Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 08:08:49 +0100
From: Christian Brabandt <cb@...bit.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Fw: Security risk of vim swap files


On So, 05 Nov 2017, Jakub Wilk wrote:

> Couldn't vim create swapfiles with mode 0600 and be done with it?

Because then users of the group could not recover the file anymore, 
although they are able to read the original file.

Christian
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