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Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

|   It is not nice of Stallman to remove a security related option like
|   that.

The default doesn't look insecure to me (files.el):

(defcustom enable-local-eval 'maybe
  "*Control processing of the \"variable\" `eval' in a file's local variables.
The value can be t, nil or something else.
A value of t means obey `eval' variables;
nil means ignore them; anything else means query.

The command \\[normal-mode] always obeys local-variables lists
and ignores this variable."
  :type '(choice (const :tag "Obey" t)
                 (const :tag "Ignore" nil)
                 (other :tag "Query" other))
  :group 'find-file)

-- 
Karl Eichwalder