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Don Box: Huge Security Holes in Solaris, JVM

Posted by timothy on from the so-this-pot-and-kettle-are-in-a-coal-mine-at-night dept.

DaHat writes "Don Box, one of the authors of the original SOAP specification in 1998, now an architect on Microsoft's next generation Indigo platform recently responded to James Gosling's remarks regarding huge security holes within the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR). Don argues that the same 'flaws' that Gosling noted in the .NET CLR exist both within the Solaris operating system as well as the JVM, both of which support execution of C and C++ code, as well as explaining why this is not necessarily a bad thing."

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  1. first by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first

  2. sad news michael sims dead at 13 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I just heard some sad news on Communist talk radio - Slashdot "editor"/Domain hijacker Michael Sims was found dead in his cardboard box this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure nobody in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his abuse of power, there's no denying his contributions to douchebaggery. Truly a filthy hippie.

  3. I can already see it by Hyksos · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Quite a cool surname... Box. I bet that most slashdotters would call his family the Boxen :P