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Re: Applets security and HTMLets

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On 2 Feb 2013 14:45:17 GMT, ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote,
quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>  With all the continuous security leak reports about Java in
>  the press, 

Java is being held to a much higher standard than other languages.  In
15 years 3 holes were found in the Java sandbox.  Other languages do
not even have a sandbox.  MS sends me 2 or 3 security update a DAY for
Windows 7.

There is gross ignorance or malice going on here.

We will see if 1.7.0_13 pushed out the door 2 weeks early fixes all
the problems.

It is sort of amusing that Applets which Oracle have ignored largely
are the thing that bit them on the bum, tarnishing all of Java's
reputation.

I thing Oracle got lazy because up till recently hackers ignored Java.
Linux or Mac OS may suddenly sprout viruses when they hit some magic
level of market share. 
-- 
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com
The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time.
The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development 
time. 
~ Tom Cargill  Ninety-ninety Law 

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