IP: the Java bug

[David Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

[I had picked up the 32 bit version of the new Netscape
Navigator 2.0B Saturday and then saw it had been
deconceived on Monday. I wondered what happened. This does
re-enforce worroes stated on the net re the FUTURE problems
with such active systems like Java and other remotely
executing code. What we need is hardware/op sys that are
really secure (where is the Gemini when we need it :-) }
Well ...djf]




>Date: Mon, 09 Oct 95 14:12:41 -0400
>From: Andrew Wason <aw@bae.bellcore.com>
>
>Terence Chr Haddock <haddock@UDel.Edu>  writes:
>>
>>       Where is the 32-bit version of Netscape2.0? I can only find the
>> 16-bit. This may be because I have only been able to get on ftp4,ftp5,
>> and not ftp.netscape.com. Sorry if this is a stupid question.
>
>Netscape pulled all the 2.0 betas that supported Java yesterday,
>due to a recently discovered Java security hole.  So the 32 bit
>Windows versions, SunOS, Solaris and SGI versions were removed.
>There was a README explaining this there last night, but I can't
>find it today.
>
>Andrew