Iced Tea out of date?

Fernando Cassia fcassia at gmail.com
Sun Nov 25 22:58:46 UTC 2012


On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Gordon Messmer <yinyang at eburg.com> wrote:

> Native code bundled and launched through JNLP is no more secure than
> Active X.  JNLP is in practice a huge security hole, and should be treated
> as such.
>

You *authorize* it to run, and it features code signing. That is like
saying "installing a RPM is a huge security risk". Not if you know where it
comes from, authorize its install, and the code has been digitally signed.

FC
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