"Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_...@web.de> writes:

> This sounds dangerous. Org mode can execute untrusted code, so this
> could trick people into running untrusted code with the permissions of
> their Emacs.
>
> Links in org-mode can run shell scripts. Yes, they usually ask, but this
> may be changed it a local Emacs, trusting that it will only be used to
> open trusted local files.

You are exaggerating the situation.
The "problem" with shell links you are describing is a question of
setting variables and is also disabled by default.

eww-mode, when loading Org page, could simply set
org-link-shell-confirm-function to its default value.

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