Am Dienstag, den 30.05.2006, 12:35 -0400 schrieb Serge Knystautas:
> On 5/29/06, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > team indicates they don't support.  Second, and more importantly, they must
> > handle authentication of signed artificts.  Without the latter, I would
> > sooner include the necessary jars, or require the user to download them
> > directly from a vendor site.  Automatic downloading and installation without
> > verification is wrong, dangerous and irresponsible.  I don't mean signed
> > jars in the Java sense of jar signing.  I mean signed as in the ASF release
> > methodology.
> 
> I think this is just a bunch of FUD.  Java has survived for 10+ years
> without such an attack.  There are just too many easier ways to hack
> systems.
> 
> Obviously when ant and maven and other methods of automatically
> downloading support authentication, then great, but I see this as a
> bogus reason to not use automatic downloads.
> 

I really agree ..

bye
Norman

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