[TriLUG] Homeland Security and Java

Dan Weber dan.b.weber at gmail.com
Sat Jan 12 18:34:48 EST 2013


Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the version of rails Rails released
this week focused on patching this vulnerability?

On Saturday, January 12, 2013, James Jones 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<javascript:;>>
> 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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