DISABLE JAVA ADVICE FROM DHS

[Richard Gaskin]

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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