On Tue, 23 Jan 1996, Benjamin Renaud wrote:
Yes. And if you also let an intruder in your house, have them sit at your computer with your newborn child in the room and go on vacation, things can get really, really nasty.
I guess that wu-ftp never was distributed with security holes. Never heard of anyone distributing maliscious lookalike packages. How many folks do you think downloaded the linux-JDK and use it without checking it out first. That takes care of the compiler. And distributing bad netscape or other browsers is childs play. So I guess your newborn is relevant. Stick to your belief that Java is secure because, darn it, it just would be hard for anyone to do bad things with it. Please.
-- Benjamin Java Products Group
Matt