And afaik it not only affects applets. If my understanding is correct, this should be able to be exploited by ANYONE who allows third party code to run in their JVM - think hosting providers, postgresql servers with pljava as a stored procedure language, cloud providers…..
On 30/08/2012, at 11:16 PM, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > Usually I would, but 4 months seems long for such a serious bug that affects > so many across language, culture and platform (we're likely talking > 100M > installations). People are taught to stay up-to-date. However, in this case, > running the top-notch JDK7 is less safe than running an older 6.0. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
