[47831] in Cypherpunks
Re: Hack Java
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Miszewski)
Wed Jan 24 02:31:23 1996
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 08:35:45 -36000
From: Matt Miszewski <crypto@midex.com>
To: Benjamin Renaud <br@scndprsn.Eng.Sun.COM>
Cc: gback@facility.cs.utah.edu, rsalz@osf.org, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199601240001.QAA25104@springbank.Eng.Sun.COM>
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
