On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:07:06 +0100, clay <[email protected]> wrote:
How does a multiplayer game present security risks? And how does an embedded Java make security risks worse than C or other dev platforms? As long as the embedded VM isn't being used to run potentially malicious applets and web start programs from around the Internet, users shouldn't be at any more risk than with any other mulitplayer game written in C.
A security risk can potentially arise when the VM is launched, not necessarily as an applet, as in general security risks are everywhere (even though I think most of security holes were with applets).
Sure, Java is more secure than C. But when a C-based application exposes a security risk, the bad press will be for the application. If the problem is with Java, the bad press will be for Java (and it would be the same for Silverlight or Flash, etc...).
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