Security Privacy Confidentiality and even Inconvenience are similar effects addressed by technologies we will discuss |
Why is there so much excitement about the (lack of necessary) security in Java? |
In fact Java is one of the few languages where both the language design (e.g. no pointers) and runtime (e.g. byte code verifier) explicitly address security as a major concern. |
Java's great contribution was adding programmability to clients but this allows the "bad guys" to program various bad things such as viruses! |