From: Greg Miller <gmiller@grendel.ius.indiana.edu>
To: “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1995-10-09 22:00:18 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 9 Oct 95 15:00:18 PDT
From: Greg Miller <gmiller@grendel.ius.indiana.edu>
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 95 15:00:18 PDT
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Subject: Re: Java
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On Sun, 8 Oct 1995, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
> As long as people are mentioning Java, I just want to make the
> prediction, one more time, that at some point someone is going to find
> some devistating security holes in HotJava.
I'd like to make this prediction: someone at some point in time
will find another serious security hole in SendMail.
What you need to ask yourself is "Do the benefits of Java
outweigh the security risks?"
greg.miller@shivasys.com
http://www.ius.indiana.edu/~gmiller/
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