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Foil 151 Java Features -- It's (Hopefully) Secure

From MetaComputing -- MRA Meeting Part I:Concepts and Issues Tutorial for CRPC MRA Meeting at Cornell -- May 7 1996. by Mark Baker, Geoffrey Fox
1 Java binaries are shipped across the network and executed on client machines. Security is therefore a critical issue and strongly enforced in Java.
2 Java contains its own networking classes which are designed to be secure
3 Modifications of the C++ model such as eliminating pointer arithmetic and coercion were dictated mainly by the security requirements.
4 Most viruses are based on acquiring access to private/protected sectors of computer memory which is impossible in Java.
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