But, if you are suggesting that this exploit is being used against someone of us in LH64, I disagree. (As someone who has been in OS development and systems operations for the past 40 years!)example needed? Here is an example of the java exploit being used against a linux computer. It doesnt matter that the exploit was originally discovered on windows... since its a java exploit it works across every version of Java that wasnt properly patched.
Were you attacked by this vulnerabilty? I hope is is not something to just raise a fear-level.
Sorry, as having been involve with DB, system, application and site security over the past years and the teams I have worked with in planning and deployment, I find the concerns raised here about JAVA and FLASH as ill placed.
This distro has NOT reported data loss or users being to attacked because JAVA (for OFFICE) or FLASH (for browsers) have been exploited to the detriment of community use.
Unless you are showing that it has, we should continue to support and push forward LH64 functionality versus raising fears to limit its flexibility. Limiting flexibility does NOT promote user acceptablilty for 64bit systems with all of the RAM that accompany these PCs.
But, should you or anyone want to share how to limit it after you begin its use, I would welcome and applaud the info.
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