Re: Why I dislike Java. (was Re: "Scruffies" vs. "Neats")

"Allen" == "E ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@mbcl.rutgers.edu> writes:
Allen> Why bother, if they don't have any critical stuff on Allen> them? But you certainly would not want the Java machines to be behind the same firewall as the non-Java ones, since then the firewall would be useless (see http://www.cs.princeton.edu/sip/pub/secure96.html). And you would probably want to have a second firewall anyway, since the machine running Netscape can contain confidential information downloaded from the net. Also, if Netscape is used to access password protected (or SSL encrypted) documents/forms, an attacker with access to the non-secure machine can get many kinds of secret information, including passwords and credit card numbers. -Victor -- Victor Boyko <vboykod@is-2.nyu.edu> http://galt.cs.nyu.edu/students/vb1890/ To get my PGP key, finger or send e-mail with subject "send pgp key".
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