17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Perry E. Metzger wrote: | I don't believe the Sun Java stuff would suffer from it, although I | fear Java a great deal. I keep hearing this thought. Isn't Win95 with its 'executables in email' much more dangerous than Java, which at least tries to address security? There is the argument that the claims will inspire false confidence in Java's security mechanisms, and thus people will be bitten, but I don't buy it. People don't look to security as a chack item when buying software. And when they do, they're usually not capable of distinguishing between the pap that passes for security through marketing from security by design. Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume