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13th January 2013, 11:59 PM
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Re: Disabled your Java yet?
Fortunately, I never use the java plugin. I have Java installed for a few pieces of software, but never use the browser plugin, I never had a need.
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14th January 2013, 01:29 AM
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Re: Disabled your Java yet?
Oracle released the "patched" version just today.
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BASH:~/-> java -version
java version "1.7.0_11"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_11-b21)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.6-b04, mixed mode)
My tarball install of firefox-18.0 still won't show the java plug-in though. Haven't tried in Windows yet.
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14th January 2013, 03:37 AM
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Re: Disabled your Java yet?
PabloTwo, thanks for the news about the patch. I just installed the Oracle JDK 1.7.0_11, and I have Java applets enabled in Firefox 17.0.1.
I just tested it on some applets and it works fine. Woohoo! Take that, Homeland Security! 
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14th January 2013, 02:06 PM
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Re: Disabled your Java yet?
Looks like Oracle has released a fix, it says here.
The fault was being exploited to inject code into Windows machines that were fully updated and patched. Presumably, that's the motivation for the concern.
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15th January 2013, 02:05 AM
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Re: Disabled your Java yet?
They were amazingly quick this time to patch it. I think somebody worked over the weekend.
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15th January 2013, 02:13 AM
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Re: Disabled your Java yet?
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They were amazingly quick this time to patch it. I think somebody worked over the weekend.
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Sales are threatened when the feds go out of their way to scare people about your software.
This got, and is getting, a lot of mainstream media play. Most people just hear "Java" and file away a memory that it's to be avoided.
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15th January 2013, 03:24 AM
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Re: Disabled your Java yet?
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No need. Unless I've missed something, it doesn't run the most holy JVM.
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Next time read the smilies for sarcastic intent.
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15th January 2013, 04:51 AM
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Re: Disabled your Java yet?
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How do you disable the Java on your android devices ?  |
buy a windows phone? 
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18th January 2013, 09:26 PM
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Re: Disabled your Java yet?
Well, that didn't last long. Looks like they found 2 more vulnerabilities in java 7 update 11 and now it is on the Firefox block list again.
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18th January 2013, 10:33 PM
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18th January 2013, 10:37 PM
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Re: Disabled your Java yet?
I heard that they'd failed to patch one of the known ones and in the meantime another one has been discovered 
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19th January 2013, 03:03 AM
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Re: Disabled your Java yet?
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I heard that they'd failed to patch one of the known ones and in the meantime another one has been discovered |
yeah, I got an internal email that they botched it...
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20th January 2013, 05:54 PM
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Re: Disabled your Java yet?
I don't know, but this really feels like Y2K to me.
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20th January 2013, 10:50 PM
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Re: Disabled your Java yet?
Saw the same news. I did get Oracle JRE to work on F18, but Fedora likes to default to the Opensource stuff. Needless to say, I wiped the Oracle out and installed the opensource product that comes with Fedora. Everything works nice except for the icedtea-plugin. Can't seem to get that up and running.
PS Never mind, got icedtea working. Not sure if it is also a bad java target.
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