[CrackMonkey] Java Damage ("we think it's pretty safe")

[James Morris]

Excerpts from:
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5578010.html?tag=mn_hd

  Java is spreading into one of the last, most demanding frontiers of
  computing--but getting it there has required some compromises from Sun
  Microsystems on the basic principles of the software.

  ...

  But real-time Java has a provision for Java programs that can actually
  write to the computer's memory, a region that's outside the protective
  sandbox. Bollela said, however, that only certain basic Java programs
  are granted this privileged access.

  "We allow physical memory access, something that regular Java doesn't," Bollela
  said. "But it's pretty controlled, so we think it's pretty safe."


I think they're trying to horse us.

- James
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James Morris
<jmorris at intercode.com.au>