[whatwg] Dealing with UI redress vulnerabilities inherent to the current web

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Elliotte Rusty Harold <
elharo at metalab.unc.edu> wrote:

> I do think we have an existence proof that security in this realm is
> possible. That's Java. Modulo some outright bugs in VMs (since repaired) the
> default Java applet security model has worked and worked well since 1.0 beta
> 1. (1.0 alpha 1 wasn't quite strict enough.) I have seen no security design
> flaws exposed in Java applets in over ten years. That's why I suspect
> duplicating Java's security policy in HTML is a safe way forward. I'm
> skeptical that anything less will suffice.
>

You also see that Java is almost never used in the public Web. Java doesn't
prove anything.

Rob
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