From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 11:03:17 +0800
To: Adam Shostack <perry@piermont.com
Subject: Re: VIRUS ALERT: Java virus that affects Netscape 2.0 & 2.01.
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At  7:45 AM 5/24/96 -0500, Adam Shostack wrote:
>        Hype about Java and a move to a policy based security
>mechanism are not incompatible.  Perry's security model will probably
>be NO Java, NO Livescript.  Mine might be only Java signed by McAffee
>can get more than 3 seconds of CPU time, or access remote network
>ports on the server it came from, no other code can run.

I would like to be able to enforce a policy for Java applet CPU time which
says, the applet can have as much time as it wants/needs constrained by:

(1) I can always determine how much it is using.
(2) I can kill it without killing other processes/threads including the browser.
(3) Without interfering with 1 or 2, I can set its priority in relation to
other programs running on my machine.

In the long term, I would like the ability to sell CPU cycles to Java
applets.  (Or donate cycles to projects I support.)


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