Java bugs found?

Lucky Green shamrock at netcom.com
Mon Oct 9 20:51:59 PDT 1995


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In article <199510100145.SAA00403 at lux.reich.com>, Richard_Reich at reich.com
(Richard Reich) wrote:

> After I noticed the file had been pulled, I recovered its contents from my 
> netscape cache (thanks, netscape!):
> 
>   Netscape was notified on Sunday 10/8/95 by Sun Microsystems that there
> is a serious security hole in their Java system [...]

So much for guaranteed security. There is one question on my mind. Why do
today's programs have to try to do it all? Why the heck does a
wordprocessor have to ship with a compiler built in? Not to mention that
there seems to be a disturbing tendency to "feature" automatic execution
of arbitrary code submitted by third parties.
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