Will New Red-Text Warnings Kill Casual Use of Java?

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 26, 2013 @05:34AM from the brew-more dept.

New submitter ddyer writes "Java 1.7.0_40 [Note: released earlier this month] introduces a new 'red text' warning when running unsigned Java applets. 'Running unsigned applications like this will be blocked in a future release...' Or, for self-signed applets,'Running applications by UNKNOWN publishers will be blocked in a future release...' I think I see the point — this will give the powers that be the capability to shut off any malware java applet that is discovered by revoking its certificate. The unfortunate cost of this is that any casual use of Java is going to be killed. It currently costs a minimum of $100/year and a lot of hoop-jumping to maintain a trusted certificate.'"

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Apparently, applets only by SirGarlon · 2013-09-26 05:44 · Score: 5, Informative

TFA says this is for "Rich Internet Applications," that is, Java applets embedded in Web pages. It doesn't seem this would affect Java programs that you execute locally, such as (for example) Eclipse.

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1. Re:Apparently, applets only by snookerdoodle · 2013-09-26 05:50 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  Exactly.
  OP doesn't seem to know anything about Java.
  This will not affect standalone Java programs, only applets.
  It could be argued that they should have done this a long time ago.
  Mark