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Yes, significantly. The JVM just flat out does not provide a sandbox. Remember the bad old days of clicking on a suspicious link and getting pwnd? That's what w
by achierius 1y ago
Yes, significantly. The JVM just flat out does not provide a sandbox. Remember the bad old days of clicking on a suspicious link and getting pwnd? That's what we'd have if it weren't for modern JavaScript engines
- graemep 1y agoI thought the JVM had permissions restrictions in the days of Java applets?
- ezst 1y agoI suppose it had, but as a large codebase written in a memory-unsafe language with unrestricted system access, in an era where browser plugins weren't sandboxed by design, it was a cat and mouse game.