Chapter 15. Security and the Virtual Machine
The first popular use of Java was to permit web surfers to download applets into their web browsers. This greatly extended the capabilities of web browsers, but some people were concerned that the capabilities had been extended too far, allowing malicious applet writers to wreak havoc on the computer of anybody using the applets. They pointed out that Java is a full-featured language, which would allow applet writers to do just about anything. It is extremely difficult to prove things about computer programs written in conventional languages, and it is usually easy to hide malicious code in an innocent-looking program.
The Java platform provides a solution to these security fears. The platform contains ...
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