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To: louis mason who wrote (9955)	8/5/1998 12:53:00 PM
From: Mike Milde	Read Replies (2) of 74651

From the CNN article, this doesn't appear to be a big deal at all. You have to actually load the program onto the computer that you want to later break into. It's not like you can sit at home with this software and go breaking into computers across the Internet without the user on the other side cooperating. Really, the security risk is that you can't run applications under Microsoft in a protected "sandbox". Java protects you from this, so "hacks" such as Back Orifice won't be possible at some point in the future. Running standard user apps as native binary code is crude and risky. You have no way to keep them in check. They can run wild like Back Orifice, and you'll never know it. (It's the way most apps are written today, but it's still not safe. :-) Mike

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