DISABLE JAVA ADVICE FROM DHS
Richard Gaskin
ambassador at fourthworld.com
Sat Jan 12 16:18:56 EST 2013
stephen barncard wrote:
> http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_268744/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=H7NX2XTB
>
> *WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is advising
> people to temporarily disable the Java software on their computers to avoid
> potential hacking attacks.*
>
>
> Really - is Java as relevant as it used to be? Hasn't JavaScript and AJAX
> pretty much taken over the browser side at least?
Java does some things we still can't do in JavaScript/HTML5.
Ironically, one of those thing is establishing a VPN connection, and I
know a few companies who choose a Java-based way of doing that over the
OS-provided control panel "for security reasons". ;)
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