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- From: snapper@mgl.ca (Allan Purtle)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Best Mail Program for use with SLIP, SMTP, POP, AmiTCP?
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Date: 17 Jan 1996 17:31:53 GMT
- Organization: MGL Systems Internet
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- Heikki Kantola (hkantola@cc.Helsinki.FI) wrote:
- : Allan Purtle <snapper@mgl.ca> provided the following
- : for the eyes of comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.networking:
- : >
- : >Wait till you get a Java on your Amiga.... then I can run my own code on your
- : >machine easily, as opposed to having to do a bunch of work to do it via rexx. When
- : >you tell me my Java applet zapped your drive, I'll just say "oh, a bug, I'll have
- : >to fix that some day..."
-
- : FYI Java is designed as secure and read/write-operations are not
- : possible at all on the client side. For more info check Java security
- : FAQ at <URL:http://java.sun.com/sfaq/>.
-
- : --
- : Heikki Kantola aka Hezu@IRC, /// IhmiselΣmΣ ei ole ollenkaan
- : Computer Linguistics Student /// niin monimutkaista kuin miltΣ
- : at the University of Helsinki \\\/// se nΣyttΣΣ - se on paljon
- : E-Mail: Heikki.Kantola@Helsinki.FI\/// monimutkaisempaa.
-
-
- --
- Yes, Java is designed as secure, however it is has yet to be implemented as bullet
- proof on a Windows 95 environment, and an Amiga implementation would likely be
- incapable of preventing someone like me from doing what ever I wanted.
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- The nature of the Amiga OS presents problems that Java itself cannot guard
- against, which is not to say that additional support to improve these conditions
- couldn't be implemented in addition to the Java interpreter and local toolkits.
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- The best thing you can do to aid someone in breaking into your system is to assume
- that you actually have protection against such attacks. Thi internet was not
- designed to provide security intrinsicly, so the best you can hope for is a
- reasonable expectation that you have some level of protection, but that certainly
- doesn't translate to bullet proof under any currently implemented operatng system.
-
- When dealing with the internet you should make only one assumption.
- "secure and internet are mutually exclusive"
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