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Article: ``Rogue Java roaming Net...''

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gene Ingram)
Fri May 17 18:47:36 1996

Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 13:36:28 -0700
From: Gene Ingram <gene@hpfsvr01.cup.hp.com>
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An interesting article appears on the front page of the San Jose 
Mercury news, Friday, 5/17/96 (http://www.sjmercury.com/).  If you 
get this after Friday, you might try the following Mercury News 
link to the actual story:  

``Rogue Java roaming Net
  No crashes documented yet from hostile programs''
  Published: May 17, 1996 
  Mercury News Wire Services 
  http://www.sjmercury.com/business/sun516.htm

The article mentions Sun's ``Hostile Applets'' warning posted at 
http://java.sun.com/sfaq/ on the World Wide Web.

Gene

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