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1996-01-31 - Re: FL Demonstrates Fatal Flaw in Logins

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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>
To: br@scndprsn.eng.sun.com (Benjamin Renaud)
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Message ID: <199601301349.IAA02865@jekyll.piermont.com>
Reply To: <199601300603.WAA11063@springbank.Eng.Sun.COM>
UTC Datetime: 1996-01-31 03:13:04 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 11:13:04 +0800

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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 11:13:04 +0800
To: br@scndprsn.eng.sun.com (Benjamin Renaud)
Subject: Re: FL Demonstrates Fatal Flaw in Logins
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Benjamin Renaud writes:
> The only events a Java applet is privy to are those that are typed in
> an applet window (and only those it itself spawned).

Don't say "is privy". Say "is supposed to be privy". Doubtless bugs
will appear in java security in the future -- they've shown up in the
past.

Perry

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