On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 04:18:37PM +1100, Peter Johnson wrote:
> So are you saying that I could run ActiveX on my Linux FireFox browser?
I doubt he meant that, but I also doubt his bosses gave a damn
about Linux users :-).
> A java serialised object should be secure enough, the next step would be
> to add some sort of encryption.
It's all a matter of degrees, like Frank said... security is a
scalar, not a boolean. But still, in the end, you're running on
somebody else's hardware, and they can, with enough work, get at the
innards of whatever you send them (see some of the MMORPG hacks for
good examples).
If anybody ever figures out a truly effective safeguard against
this (which would be at least equivalent, in terms of mathematical
creativity, to public/private key encryption), we'll see some really
radical changes.
--
Steven J. Owens
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"I'm going to make broad, sweeping generalizations and strong,
declarative statements, because otherwise I'll be here all night and
this document will be four times longer and much less fun to read.
Take it all with a grain of salt." - http://darksleep.com/notablog
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