[3118] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: New and destructive word macro virus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (hallam@ai.mit.edu)
Sat Sep 28 16:52:24 1996
From: hallam@ai.mit.edu
To: CHESS@watson.ibm.com, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Cc: hallam@ai.mit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 27 Sep 96 10:16:41 EDT."
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Date: Sat, 28 Sep 96 15:05:40 -0400
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
>That would certainly make the security problems (not just viruses)
>simpler! But the marketplace seems to have a strong hunger for
executable content.
I disagree. I don't think that there is a real demand for executable
content. I don't think the market knows what it is.
What there is is a massive amount of interest in Java. I don't think
that the mobile code story is very convincing but the kill C++ story
seems to have won.
I don't see the market as being identical with the interests of
hackers (in the MIT sense). I agree that Java is a cool thing
to play with but I have yet to see anything interesting that used
the mobile code concept.
As recently summed up by one Java skeptic "You give us your corporate
strategy and your customer accounts, and we'll give you dancing
beans on your screen".
Phill
