Exactly, especially so because that would totally break sandboxing. Granted, applets are way beyond their best-before date, but there may be other reasons a Sec

Exactly, especially so because that would totally break sandboxing. Granted, applets are way beyond their best-before date, but there may be other reasons a SecurityManager sandbox is in place, perhaps for isolating multiple .wars from different sources, or maybe someone even wrote a sandbox for executing user-supplied code. Java's raison d'être was arguably the byte code verifier. Being able to crash the JVM with validated byte code is always a bug.