[4740] in WWW Security List Archive
RE: Latest Java hole is Netscape/Sun only
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Reardon)
Sun Mar 9 23:23:26 1997
From: Thomas Reardon <thomasre@microsoft.com>
To: "'Tazman'" <taz@kensico.com>
Cc: "'schemers@stanford.edu'" <schemers@stanford.edu>,
"'Bob Denny'"
<rdenny@dc3.com>,
"'WWW Security List'"
<WWW-SECURITY@ns2.rutgers.edu>
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 18:41:13 -0800
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
The Java VM is about 10% of the property of Java JDK, as Sun defines it.
What is proprietary are the classes.
-Thomas
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tazman [SMTP:taz@kensico.com]
>Sent: Sunday, March 09, 1997 3:50 PM
>To: Thomas Reardon
>Cc: schemers@stanford.edu; 'Bob Denny'; 'WWW Security List'
>Subject: RE: Latest Java hole is Netscape/Sun only
>
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>
>On Sun, 9 Mar 1997, Thomas Reardon wrote:
>
>> >Java is open and platform independent. Java has been tested and
>> review by many
>> >security expert and researchers.
>>
>> Let be clear: Java is platform-independent to some extent (I mean, you
>> need similar hardware, 256-color graphics, etc for just about every
>> 'plaform' JDK 1.1 works on), but IT IS NOT OPEN.
>
>I hope you aren't browsing the net with less than 256 colors!
>You can probably make a similiar argument for needing > 10M of space.
>Anyway, platform-independent = OS + hardware.
>
>All the specifications for the Java Virtual Machine and Java Language is
>documented and free. You can easily find 20 vendors implementing the JVM
>and browsers. How "open" do you want it to be?
