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Foil 5 Some General Issues II

From Remarks on Java and Internet Security Web Certificate CPS616 Enhancement -- Summer 1997 . by Geoffrey C. Fox
Java does have a very reasonable security model but it does not (did not) come with a complete implementation and so success of its security depends on additional capabilities.
  • Such as Server-Browser implementation of connections
  • The necessary extra stuff was (and is now to some extent) incomplete and had flaws (bugs in the software)
  • Authentication of creator of Java Applet
The Internet is particularly fragile as one mistake/successful "terrorist attack" can impact computers over the whole world
  • The previous highways (interstate roadways) could only be attacked at isolated points (unless one used nuclear weapons) and so required less stringent security concerns

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