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Security Privacy Confidentiality and even Inconvenience are similar effects addressed by technologies we will discuss
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Why is there so much excitement about the (lack of necessary) security in Java?
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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.
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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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