Hope these are getting through

... but I changed a few things and now am getting two pages instead of four.
But I believe there is still some things wrong which I can not figur eout.

Vikki


----- Original Message -----
From: <jtpolk(at)texas.net>
To: <hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 2:25 PM
Subject: Re: Protecting your site against defacement


> > warped facination with the whole issue of security.  I've also seen
snippets
> > of comments about the security breaches that could be caused by having
JAVA
> > enabled on your computer (?)
>
> These snippets are part of the Microsoft campaign to discredit and
> justify their removal of Java from MSIE 6.0 and Windows XP and to
> promote their .NET initiative. This is part of the same campaign against
> Open Source Software (whoops, they meant to say GPL software if you
> ask).
>
> Java has built-in security that make any viruses extremely rare. Java
> runs in a software "sandbox" in the browser that prevents it from
> gaining control of the computer.
>
> The snippets are almost all from (guess who) Microsoft, to support
> *their* removal of Java support from MSIE 6.0 and Windows XP. They have
> also instituted ''secruity'' settings that will eliminate Java from
> Email and also from their 6.0 browser (you can install Java as a plugin
> if you want).
>
> However, let us note that these enhanced ''security'' features do not
> disable things like Word and Excel attachements with their ''macros''.
>
> However, we should not fear, all we need to do is to switch from having
> Java on our pages and our client's pages, to some of the more secure
> technologies of MicroSoft's .Net initiative. What I think is especially
> sweet is that many people authored web sites using FrontPage and some
> nifty buttons using Java. Now those sites will be broken, oddly enough
> by the software of the company that sold FrontPage to those developers
> in the first place. Hmmm.
>
> And finally, consider the ''big'' picture. How many JAVA security
> problems have you heard about?? I would guess that the answer would be
> about as close to none as is possible for most of us.
>
> Now, what of Microsoft ''macro'' problems?? VB (Visual Basic) problems?
> XML problems (where an XML pages could gain control of a computer)? IIS
> problems?? Outlook Email problems?? Thousands??
>
> Now, stack those two side by side, and see which is be worried about
> (grin).
>
>
> --
>
>
> Jim Tom Polk -:- jtpolk(at)texas.net -:- http://camalott.com/~jtpolk/
> ''You might as well fall flat on your face as
>   lean over too far backwards.''      --James Thurber--
>    "The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three
>           elements: energy, matter and enlightened self-interest."
>   - G'Kar  "Survivors"

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