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To: mozek who wrote (9976)	8/6/1998 9:05:00 AM
From: Mike Milde	Read Replies (2) of 74651

<< If I convinced someone to download a set of Java classes, put them on their classpath and run them, I could do the same thing. Zero security. Of course, it might be easier to convince someone to do that because people have a false sense of security about Java. >> Well, maybe... JDK 1.1 can run Java apps securely, but JDK 1.2 makes it very easy for the user. 1.2 users will quickly learn that a single command line switch to their JRE will run any application in a protected "sandbox". To be fair, you may get away with this today out of user ignorance, but Sun has made the tools readily available that allow users to run their applications securely. Computer viruses and pranks and such cost corporations $billions every year. You can't ignore the value of something that lets you run questionable software safely. Mike

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