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Re: java security concerns
Perry E. Metzger writes:
> To (perhaps over)simplify my point, the Java interpreter cannot be
> stripped of all i/o capabilities and still remain useful.
?!? What if all I give you is a couple of Java classes that write to
a frame buffer, and that frame buffer is the screen (or your 24-pin
dot matrix printer or whatever)?
> I can
> physically remove all the "dangerous" calls from a Postscript
> interpreter and still have it be useful.
I don't see the difference. An interpreter is an interpreter.
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