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Java removed certain classes of errors (memory management). It introduced other (providing an insecure sandbox for applets).

• wolf550e 10y ago
  I think code execution by insecure deserialization is the big Java security problem now, though I'm neither a security guy nor a Java guy.
• lmm 10y ago
  It's not like C applets are safer.
  • PeCaN 10y ago
    If we consider NaCl to be "C applets"... yes, it actually is safer.