| From: | Don Cox |
| Date: | 4 Apr 2001 at 22:07:24 |
| Subject: | Re: Amiga announcements - any questions? |
Hello Andrew
On 04-Apr-01, Andrew Crowe wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
>> On 04-Apr-01, Anthony W. Prime wrote:
>>
>>> A national conference was planned to really get things moving, but
>>> an, urm "major software supplier" objected in quite a menacing way
>>> which resulted in it`s cancellation :(
>>
>> Interesting. How can we stop these thugs? I wish I knew.
>>
>> I suppose one step would be for somebody well-informed about this
>> area of education to write some programs in Java, which would run on
>> the AmigaDE or on Linux. (And on W******)
>
> Java is sandboxed (well, when you run it from the internet it is). It
> has no access to the machines OS or diskspace, so you can't write
> viruses in Java unless someone was running a 100% Java OS, or it was
> a running on a rather insecure virtual machine.
This aplies only to applets, not to standalone programs.
> As for the AmigaDE, presumably there'll be anti-virus software written
> for it, and prehaps some important system files could be locked by
> the OS to prevent viruses writing to them
I wasn't talking about viruses. How did you get onto that topic? We
were talking about educational software, lack of, Amiga.
Regards
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