Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 14:10:18 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert) Cc: andreas@knobel.gun.de, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Hot Java.. Message-ID: <15434.799189818@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 29 Apr 1995 22:52:21 %2B0200." <199504292052.WAA16223@blaise.ibp.fr>
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> > Java has an interpreted language built in, so you can download scripts > > that actually _interact_ with the user locally. I don't think you > > That should open a big can of worms too (aka security holes)... This is certainly not news to Sun, and they have some mechanisms for dealing with it. You can also disallow local execution if you wish, using it instead as a straight brower. Dataflow analysis and variant command sets/privilege levels for interpreted languages is the future. Jordan
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