GNU Emacs 20: desktop.el security weakness?

[Ian Zimmerman <itz@speakeasy.org>]

This is from the end of desktop-save in desktop.el:

      (if (file-exists-p filename) (delete-file filename))
      (write-region (point-min) (point-max) filename nil 'nomessage)))

IOW emacs always recreates the desktop file from scratch.  This seems
to have the unpleasant side-effect that it is made world-readable with
each save (unless blocked by umask, but most people's umask is not
that paranoid).  Does anyone else agree that this might be a problem?

Simply removing the first line should fix it ...

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