Firewalls: Re: Java(tm) security documentation

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Subject:	Re: Java(tm) security documentation
From:	peter @ nmti . com (Peter da Silva)
Date:	Mon, 6 Nov 1995 09:58:55 -0600 (CST)
To:	shaver @ neon . ingenia . com (Mike Shaver)
Cc:	Doug . Hughes @ Eng . Auburn . EDU, firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to:	<199511060608 . BAA02160 @ neon . ingenia . com> from "Mike Shaver" at Nov 6, 95 01:08:51 am

> > It still sounds easily subverted via social engineering.

> What isn't?
> If you allow outbound TCP, you're wide open for someone to distribute
> a Netscape plug-in, or a new version of ws_ftp, or what have you, and
> have it do nasty things security-leak-wise.

Yeh, but that's not something that can be subverted with two apparently
innocent clicks.

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Re: Java(tm) security documentation
From: Mike Shaver <shaver @ neon . ingenia . com>

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