Article 153360 of comp.os.vms:
In article <4v5674$10ha@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>, leinberger@axp621.gsi.de (Uwe Leinberger GSI Darmstadt) writes:
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>I completely agree with you about the eminent danger of JAVA.
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>You're mentioning a web sit in Princeton. Could you give a URL?
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>Thanks Uwe

While I was not the poster you responded to here are some URLs for those 
interested in Java and/or Javascript security "features"

    http://www.cs.princeton.edu/sip/News.html

(mentions some bugs uncovered in Aug 1996 that let Mozzila and MSIE:
   "Both bugs 
    were serious, allowing a malicious applet to gain at
    least full read/write access to the victim's files." 
 These have allegedly been fixed in latest releases.)
   
    http://www.c2.org/~aelana/javascript.html 
    http://ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk/~david/java/bugs/

    http://www.math.gatech.edu/~mladue/HostileApplets.html
    http://www-genome.wi.mit.edu/WWW/faqs/wwwsf7.html#Q59

Peter Prymmer
pvhp@lns62.lns.cornell.edu