Timothy, that's assuring for the big guns!
However, given my absolute ignorance of Java and its whatevers, how and
where used on my laptops with Windows XP, with the likes of RDz, TXSeries,
Adobe Reader, Lotus Symphony, Internet Explorer into 'regular' sites (IBM,
Google, soccernet.com, news sites, etc), with Microsoft Security Essentials
as an AV, with weekly Emisoft and Malwarebytes scans for insurance .. need I
worry, are these 'protections' trapping the crap - maybe not of interest
here but ..
I ask the following in this group because am trying to develop mainframe
stuff on an affordable platform? Where can little people like me read a
succinct 'blow by blow' what I might do?
As an aside, why don't/can't courts impose twenty year sentences to stop
this nonsense?
Graham Hobbs
----- Original Message -----
From: "Timothy Sipples" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2013 7:00 AM
Subject: Re: Java Security?
I don't see any cause for alarm on servers, including on z/OS. To the
extent the applet runtime environment is modified for security reasons I
expect the server implementations to get updated for behavioral
consistency, but it's no emergency in my view. Unless you make it a habit
of affirmatively downloading Java programs from unknown sources and running
it with limited or no external controls on the Java runtime. In which case
you're already in trouble, particularly if you're using an operating system
and Java implementation that the author of the malicious program
anticipated and tested.
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Consulting Enterprise IT Architect (Based in Singapore)
E-Mail: [email protected]
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