Re: signing applets a solution? Never!

["Marcus J. Ranum" <mjr () nfr net>]

> There are proposals (W3) incorporating some thing like the web of trust for
> an applet so you can at least see if the author is thought reliable by
> someone you trust to say so. 

Applets are a subset of the whole problem of trusting the source
of any application. Why should people be more worried about
running an applet than a browser plugin? Or a word processor
you bought at a store? Or Windows?

One of the things that scares me is that sooner or later someone
will hack the planet by getting a job working for some big software
vendor...

mjr.
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