[41631] in Cypherpunks
Re: java flaw
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aleph One)
Tue Oct 17 12:50:11 1995
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 11:41:08 -0500 (CDT)
From: Aleph One <aleph1@dfw.net>
To: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Cc: an407769@anon.penet.fi, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199510171504.IAA17210@blob.best.net>
Ehh.. Lets just say that that article wsa not the most technicaly acurate.
And you are right it does not scan for viruses.
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On Tue, 17 Oct 1995, James A. Donald wrote:
> Even if one had genuine artificial intelligence, it would be impossible
> to detect all viruses, only particular viruses and classes of virus.
>
> If Java is secure, virus scanning should be unnecessary, indeed
> impossible, because there could be no code configuration capable
> of acting as a virus.
>
> If virus scanning occurs, then it is possible to write a virus in Java,
> then Java is inherently insecure.
>
