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Foil 4 Some General Issues I

From Remarks on Internet and Java Security Basic Information Track Computational Science Course CPS616 -- Spring Semester 1999. by Geoffrey Fox, Mehmet Sen


1 Security Privacy Confidentiality and even Inconvenience are similar effects addressed by technologies we will discuss
2 Why is there so much excitement about the (lack of necessary) security in Java?
3 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.
4 Java's great contribution was adding programmability to clients but this allows the "bad guys" to program various bad things such as viruses!

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