[TriLUG] Homeland Security and Java

[John Mitchell]

Well, someone thinks is's serious, look at Apple & Mozilla disabling their
browsers.


john mitchell


On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 6:28 PM, James Jones <jc.jones at tuftux.com> wrote:

> And how is that different from the past serious holes in Windows XP,
> Vista, etc... Don't remember any Homeland Security press releases on
> that subject.
> .
> jcj
>
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Alan Porter <porter at trilug.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Why is Homeland Security dispatching a news release advising computer
> >> users to "disable JAVA"? Comments welcome.
> >
> > They're from the government, and they're here to help you?
> >
> > As mentioned at the meeting this week, there was a pretty serious
> > security vulnerability found in Java this week.  There was also
> > a serious hole found in Ruby on Rails.
> >
> > Alan
> >
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