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Re: FL Demonstrates Fatal Flaw in Logins

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Tue Jan 30 08:51:55 1996

To: br@scndprsn.eng.sun.com (Benjamin Renaud)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 29 Jan 1996 22:03:06 PST."
             <199601300603.WAA11063@springbank.Eng.Sun.COM> 
Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 08:49:50 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>


Benjamin Renaud writes:
> The only events a Java applet is privy to are those that are typed in
> an applet window (and only those it itself spawned).

Don't say "is privy". Say "is supposed to be privy". Doubtless bugs
will appear in java security in the future -- they've shown up in the
past.

Perry

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