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Polish Researcher: Oracle Knew For Months About Java Zero-Day

Posted by timothy on from the well-I-mean-oracle-duh dept.

dutchwhizzman writes "Polish security researcher Adam Gowdiak submitted bug reports months ago for the current Java 7 zero-day exploit that's wreaking havoc all over the Internet. It seems that Oracle can't — or won't? — take such reports seriously. Is it really time to ditch Oracle's Java and go for an open source VM?"

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  1. Duh by binarylarry · · Score: 5, Funny

    You think Uncle Larry gives a fuck?

    No. Now pay him his money.

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  2. Re:Ditch Java entirely. by binarylarry · · Score: 5, Funny

    So your business model is:

    1) Ditch Java
    2) ???
    3) Profit!

    You and the underpants gnomes should hook up!

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  3. Re:Why are people still using this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey Larry, what's your surname?