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Re: your mail

On Tue, 12 Dec 1995, jon madison wrote:

> anyone know more about the security of java/livescript (mocha, whatever)?
> i've already heard of a big flaw that was plugged for the latest 2.0beta
> that would allow a javascript author to save a history of the
> clients travels on the web.  are there any other potential dangers?
> 
> i really don't like the fact that this java script is not something
> that cannot be chosen to be turned off by the browser, can be embedded in
> html pages, etc.

They can.  If you go through the Netscape 2.0b Options menu and look under 
Security | General, it gives you the option to turn Java off.  

Mike.

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