Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.swapon.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?B?Sm9zaHVhIENyYW5tZXIg8J+Qpw==?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Java blunders Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 10:22:15 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 15:22:40 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="8cedddb29338592f734c41b16a68fadc"; logging-data="30496"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/d+Y/LmAwBIVI6Pd0RlvFIbzxj0ThANNQ=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:k5Cex+06/hCBRrGaS/WK3JLb7wU= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:29442 On 7/30/2014 9:57 AM, w.tom.adams@gmail.com wrote: > Probably not the kind of blunder that you had in mind, but: > > Creating a complier to very high, mostly machine-proved, standards, > and then turning around and producing an web applet system that is > perhaps the most vulnerable in history. How ironic can you get? Flash? Pretty much every ActiveX plugin in existence? Java applets may have had several security problems, but at least they *tried* to be secure. -- Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth