sorry, I inadvertently left the sha of the last change.

Here is a CL that restores some of the old content:

https://android-review.googlesource.com/45690

-bri

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Brian Carlstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
> lol, I think that was supposed to apply to
>
> http://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/SecurityManager.html
>
> "Legacy security code; do not use.
>
> Security managers do not provide a secure environment for executing
> untrusted code. Untrusted code cannot be safely isolated within the
> Dalvik VM."
>
> since it was from this change
>
> Author: Elliott Hughes <[email protected]>
> Date:   Thu Jan 6 18:13:31 2011 -0800
>
>     Retire SecurityManager.
>
>     This change removes all the code that was calling getSecurityManager, and
>     removes all use of AccessController.doPrivileged. It also changes the
>     implementation of AccessController so it doesn't actually do anything; 
> it's
>     only there for source-level compatibility.
>
>     Bug: 2585285
>     Change-Id: I1f0295a4f12bce0316d8073011d8593fee116f71
>
> -bri
>
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Anders Rundgren
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> http://developer.android.com/reference/java/security/package-summary.html
>>
>> As of 2012-10-07 the page begins with:
>>
>>   "package java.security
>>    This package is for compatibility with legacy code only, and should not 
>> be used or expected to do anything useful."
>>
>>
>> Where is the recommended API that one can expect does something useful?
>>
>> Anders
>>
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