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[hermie]

http://www.geek.com/articles/news/j...-everyone-should-disable-java-today-20120828/

 

[pete]

patched today

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/08/30/oracle-releases-out-of-cycle-fixes-for-java/

get the patch from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jre7u7-downloads-1836441.html or full updated version from http://java.com/en/, or if you don't need java just disable or uninstall it.

 

[Deadmanposting]

What does Java even do?

 

[pete]

MAGIC

 

[Deadmanposting]

That's pretty much how I look at any modern technology.

 

[pete]

Java applications are typically compiled to bytecode (class file) that can run on any Java Virtual Machine (JVM) regardless of computer architecture. Java is a general-purpose, concurrent, class-based, object-oriented language that is specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. It is intended to let application developers "write once, run anywhere" (WORA), meaning that code that runs on one platform does not need to be recompiled to run on another.

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