[896] in WWW Security List Archive
Java
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Orchard)
Thu Sep 21 18:00:04 1995
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 95 11:26:16 PDT
From: orchard@mda.ca (David Orchard)
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
> None the less I don't like the idea of loading a web page with the
> ability to trash my disk. I would like to see at a low level the
> implementation of Java before loading applets.
Java does not allow system calls so write, piping, etc cannot be used
to fill up or overwrite disks.
I think the java security is very well thought-out. I certainly couldn't think
of any ways to improve it.
Cheers, dave
