On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Eric Iverson <eric.b.iver...@gmail.com> wrote: > You are quite right to be concerned about security. This is an issue that > has been ignored to date, but will be important to address in the near > future. I'm hoping that users who have more familiarity with this area than > I do will make contributions. > > When you start the jhs task it is listening on port 50000. This means that > anybody who knows your IP address AND connects to port 50000 AND knows J has > nasty access to your machine. This is not good in the long term and perhaps > not even good in the short term. > > This can be convenient if you want access between machines on your local > network. But could be a serious security problem.
Yes, as it currently stands, this is horrid security. If you bind on the address 127.0.0.1 then outsiders can not get to it. FYI, -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
