[47876] in Cypherpunks
Re: Hack Java
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Wed Jan 24 14:12:00 1996
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 11:05:51 -0800
To: Christian Wettergren <cwe@it.kth.se>, Matt Miszewski <crypto@midex.com>
From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Cc: Benjamin Renaud <br@scndprsn.eng.sun.com>, gback@facility.cs.utah.edu,
rsalz@osf.org, cypherpunks@toad.com
At 9:47 1/24/96 +0100, Christian Wettergren wrote:
>(In my darker moments, I feel that the whole field of computer security
>is in a major crisis. Ever heard of the Emperor's New Clothes? ;-))
We reduce the problem of an infected Java Interpreter to the previously
unsolved problem of virus protection in general. I think it is possible to
build highly virus resistant systems, but the cost in user retraining will
be huge.
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