On Sat, 2 Mar 1996, Stephen Masterman wrote: > What is to stop someone from putting a java applet on their home page that, > when run, deletes everything it can on the local hard drive? > > Steve >
Java has built in blocks that keeps a program from doing any harm to your system. I suppose someone could still find some way to do something (perhaps crashing your computer), but I don't think anything permanent could be done. Does this mean that a program written in java can not do file i/o? Otherwise, how could the VM know that it was doing "harm" as opposed to some necessary file manipulation?
