Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Maher Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Webstart security message Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 10:43:39 +0800 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: <5a768a16-8e6a-4517-a8e8-d7bf136185e7@googlegroups.com> <459a3999-d3ff-498d-8492-99ea59943421@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: jOhPn0KFjrxwuMc9OPMmCw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:28151 On 4/19/2014 4:15 AM, Roedy Green wrote: > On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 06:44:16 -0700 (PDT), Dirk Niemeier > wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted > someone who said : > >> You ever heard about that problem > > Nothing works the way any sane person would design. I suggest it has more to do with competence than sanity. > It makes you give > permission several times to run a program. It asks you if you want to > give permission of all time to everything on the site. You say yes. > But it acts as if you said no. In my opinion Eric Costlow's lack of exposure to Java and its inner workings has left him tinkering at the periphery and trying to electrify and razor-wire the moat. > > It asks for permission for sandbox apps. This is his greatest crime against the Java community :-( This paradigm has served Java so faithfully over the years it is absolutely unbelievable that anyone would throw this baby out with any bathwater. > > It asks permission if you reload the page (through Chrome is better > about that). Any of you out there using Chrome and Applets on Linux? Has it stopped working yet? > > It asks permission if you jump to a page then hit back. > > I don't have real cert yet. I gave up part way through application. > My legal name is not the name everyone knows me by, and I don't want > to broadcast my legal name. My company is not really in business any > more to have a license. It is on my todo list to give it another > bash. > Don't worry, for every additional lock Eric puts on the door he opens another window. Site-policy files, user exception list etc.