No, i am referring to the same attack against the browser, not Java.   
And I can imagine a 12-year-old attack still working against a  
overhauled piece of software. :-)

Boris,

 > If we assume that a public-IP document can never
 > get hold of a private-IP document, these issues are
 > somewhat mitigated, perhaps.  But that's a big
 > assumption...

yes, that is what I think I am asserting and hopefully correctly  
assuming.  Can you think of a case where this is valid and isn't an  
exploit?

Doug

On Jan 16, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Eric H. Jung wrote:

>
> --- Doug Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> this will reduce, possibly
>> zero, our vulnerability to Princeton style attacks.
>
> If you're referring to:
> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/sip/news/dns-scenario.html
> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/sip/news/sun-02-22-96.html
> I can't imagine that 12-year-old attack still works with Java. The  
> Java security manager had a
> major overhaul in December 1998 when Java2 (version 1.2) was released.
>
>
>
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