AW: Question Update Java Security Updates

[Rob Farmer]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Roger Marquis <marquis at roble.com> wrote:
>
> The reason for that is that they haven't been necessary.  This cannot be
> said for openjdk, not yet at least.
>

There have been 191 "vulnerabilities" for the lifetime of JDK 1.6,
according to Secunia. java/jdk16 is at update 4 out of 24. Unless you
are running only trusted local apps with no networking support, that
is highly dubious.

-- 
Rob Farmer