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Re: The Future of Java

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JD Brennan)
Mon Aug 28 00:04:51 1995

Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 17:39:44 -0700
From: JD Brennan <brennan@symbologic.com>
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: <90324468@toto.iv>
Reply-To: JD Brennan <brennan@symbologic.com>

Alexander Anderson writes:
[snip, snip!]
 > to discuss this area.  Here is a reply about Java security from an 
 > Australian telecoms consultancy:
[snip, snip!]
 > 	for the JAVA folks.  Could I write a JAVA application for
 > 	MS-Windows that grovels around in memory looking for
 > 	interesting places to inject a virus - not all that
 > 	difficult....

How?  I thought you couldn't cast an int to a reference to an
object, so how are you going to grovel around memory?

JD Brennan
[brennan@symbologic.com               Symbologic Corp., Seattle, WA]
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