Information on the Web

• Hostile Applets Page
• What applets can do?
• Princeton Safe Internet Programming Group
• Java Electronic Commerce Framework

Concluding Remarks

• There is an inevitable trade off between increase in power/flexibility and security
• A Java user may not understand the security risks
• There is need for a better security model, with applet authentication
• Latest Netscape Java security model gives fine grained permissions, specified by applet tag in HTML.