Sooner or later you will run into an online form that is important to you which will require Java be turned on. That's a fact.
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Bruce Johnson <[email protected] > wrote: > > On Jan 29, 2013, at 1:53 PM, Dan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > At 3:12 PM -0500 01/12/2013, Dan wrote: > >> At 9:23 AM -0800 01/12/2013, Réjean Leroux wrote, on Tigerlist: > >>> Anyone knows more about this Java alert issued by US Gov (alert that > include Flash as well)! > >> > >> SSDD. Yet-another zero day vulnerability, yadda yadda yadda *yawn* > > > > And today's chapter: > > > > > http://mac-security.blogspot.com/2013/01/just-turn-java-off-very-high-security.html > > > Here's the thing: anyone who can run a vulnerable version of Java on their > Mac and has installed Apple's security updates has already done this. < > http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572> <http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1573> > The last Java update Apple released went through and purged Java from the > browser plugins. (As I found out, unpleasantly, when I tried to use a > network-based KVM we purchased. Yet another 'Universal' devioce that is > truly universal, it runs under Windows on Dells, on HP's, on Lenovo's…) > > (Apple's relesed these updates for 10.6, 7 and 8. 10.5 and lower is > officially deprecated, and doesn't run the latest versions of Java. PPC > machines CAN'T run the latest versions of java. I'm mildly surprised that > they released the fix for 10.6.) > > Anyone else either deliberately went out of their way to re-enable Java or > is not running a version that's vulnerable. > > Almost all of these new security issues with Java are the result of > Oracles new code in the latest version. > > (and the appeal to 'Open Source' java just won't happen. As I've said > before the entire impetus for Oracle to buy Sun was to acquire Java, which > is Oracle's lifeblood, since so much of their database stuff is now written > in Java.) > > Everything else (like hardware, VirtualBox, etc) was gravy for them, and > Oracle is no more going to open source Java than they would Oracle > Enterprise Database. > > -- > Bruce Johnson > University of Arizona > College of Pharmacy > Information Technology Group > > Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for > those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power > Macs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "G-Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Adrian D'Alessio aka; Fluxstringer [email protected] http://www.flickr.com/photos/fluxstreamcommunication/ http://www.facebook.com/FluxStringer http://www.linkedin.com/in/fluxstreamcommunications http://flux-influx.blogspot.com/ http://fluxdreams.designbinder.com/ -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
