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1996-04-27 - Re: The Joy of Java

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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>
To: sameer@c2.org
Message Hash: eeb4f6a4402bc2a7637126efd17653047cfa49bb3aad775b0195188109cd45b3
Message ID: <199604270111.VAA01682@jekyll.piermont.com>
Reply To: <199604270040.RAA09526@atropos.c2.org>
UTC Datetime: 1996-04-27 07:46:51 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 15:46:51 +0800

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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 15:46:51 +0800
To: sameer@c2.org
Subject: Re: The Joy of Java
In-Reply-To: <199604270040.RAA09526@atropos.c2.org>
Message-ID: <199604270111.VAA01682@jekyll.piermont.com>
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sameer@c2.org writes:
> > I go further. Java, as envisioned, cannot be made secure. It is too
> > powerful a language. Furthermore, it is unnecessary for the tasks that
> > it is used for, which are basically adding fancy wacky graphics and
> > simple applications and such to web pages.
> 
> 	Even though that is all it is used for now, I think it was
> *intended* to be used for more.

So much the worse.

I don't think its a good idea to download random programs and run them
without even realizing it, especially when they run in an execution
environment which is not particularly emasculated. I don't think this
can be made particularly secure in the general case. It is a bad
paradigm. I've said it before, and everything we've seen thus far
about Java supports my contention.

Perry

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