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Java 8 Released

posted by LaminatorX on Friday March 21 2014, @06:51PM   
from the Now-with-all-new-exploits! dept.

Sir Garlon writes:

"Oracle released version 8 of the Java Development Kit (JDK) 8 to general availability on Wednesday, March 19, 2014. (A release candidate has been available since January 2014.) The release notes include a long list of security improvements as well as support for lambda expressions."

• The Now-with-all-new-exploits! dept The Now-with-all-new-exploits! dept (Score: 2, Troll) by Sir Garlon on Friday March 21 2014, @07:23PM

  by Sir Garlon (1264) on Friday March 21 2014, @07:23PM (#19439)

  I wish I could mod LaminatorX up for labeling this story "from the Now-with-all-new-exploits! dept." The sad truth is, I wouldn't know whether to mod it Funny or Informative. :-)

  What do we call those labels, anyway?

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• Re:The Now-with-all-new-exploits! dept (Score: 2) by dotdotdot on Friday March 21 2014, @07:40PM

  by dotdotdot (858) on Friday March 21 2014, @07:40PM (#19448)

  infunitive? funformative?

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• Re:The Now-with-all-new-exploits! dept (Score: 2) by etherscythe on Friday March 21 2014, @08:31PM

  by etherscythe (937) on Friday March 21 2014, @08:31PM (#19475) Journal

  I believe it is called a "tag-line"

  +1 Funny-Because-It's-True?

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• Re:The Now-with-all-new-exploits! dept Re:The Now-with-all-new-exploits! dept (Score: 4, Informative) by Nerdfest on Friday March 21 2014, @10:01PM

  by Nerdfest (80) on Friday March 21 2014, @10:01PM (#19492)

  Java as a language (and even the VM implementation) is as secure as any other. The Sun Java browser plug-in is about as secure as Microsoft's Active-X plugins or Adobe's PDF reader plug-in.

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  • Re:The Now-with-all-new-exploits! dept Re:The Now-with-all-new-exploits! dept (Score: 1) by xtronics on Friday March 21 2014, @10:33PM

    by xtronics (1884) on Friday March 21 2014, @10:33PM (#19509) Homepage

    Not exactly - the problem is not the language, but the culture. Way to many are using binary blobs of unknown content. This is a huge problem with including Java projects in distributions.

    There is nothing about the language it self that is insecure - just the common way it is used. A favorite of three letter agencies.
     

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    • Re:The Now-with-all-new-exploits! dept (Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday March 22 2014, @04:29AM

      by c0lo (156) on Saturday March 22 2014, @04:29AM (#19609) Journal

      Way towards many are using binary blobs of unknown content.

      FTFY.
      (grin)

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