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Re: JDK 1.7.0_07 and JDK 1.6.0_35 are out

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On 31 Aug 2012 06:02:43 GMT, Fredrik Jonson <fredrik@jonson.org>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>That an attacking applet has to be unsigned doesn't limit the severety of
>this vunerability. If the vunerability was only exploitable by signed
>applets, the risk would be somewhat more limited. As it stands right now,
>any script kiddie can compile and publish exploiting code.

A signed applet is by definition dangerous. It is typically allowed to
read/write any files it pleases. Normally unsigned applets are the
safest things going, though I have heard so many false claims they are
not.  That is why I was initially suspicious.
-- 
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A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light,
but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
~ Max Planck 1858-04-23 1947-10-04 

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JDK 1.7.0_07 and JDK 1.6.0_35 are out Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-08-30 16:44 -0700
  Re: JDK 1.7.0_07 and JDK 1.6.0_35 are out Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-08-30 20:41 -0400
    Re: JDK 1.7.0_07 and JDK 1.6.0_35 are out markspace <-@.> - 2012-08-30 17:45 -0700
      Re: JDK 1.7.0_07 and JDK 1.6.0_35 are out Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-08-30 20:52 -0400
      Re: JDK 1.7.0_07 and JDK 1.6.0_35 are out Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-08-30 19:16 -0700
        Re: JDK 1.7.0_07 and JDK 1.6.0_35 are out Fredrik Jonson <fredrik@jonson.org> - 2012-08-31 06:02 +0000
          Re: JDK 1.7.0_07 and JDK 1.6.0_35 are out markspace <-@.> - 2012-08-30 23:29 -0700
            Re: JDK 1.7.0_07 and JDK 1.6.0_35 are out Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-08-31 15:38 -0400
            Re: JDK 1.7.0_07 and JDK 1.6.0_35 are out Fredrik Jonson <fredrik@jonson.org> - 2012-08-31 20:20 +0000
              Re: JDK 1.7.0_07 and JDK 1.6.0_35 are out Fredrik Jonson <fredrik@jonson.org> - 2012-09-01 06:38 +0000
                Re: JDK 1.7.0_07 and JDK 1.6.0_35 are out Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-09-02 02:15 -0700
          Re: JDK 1.7.0_07 and JDK 1.6.0_35 are out Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-08-31 15:21 -0700
            Re: JDK 1.7.0_07 and JDK 1.6.0_35 are out Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-08-31 19:53 -0400
        Re: JDK 1.7.0_07 and JDK 1.6.0_35 are out Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-08-31 15:36 -0400

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