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Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20031027222811.01b50c78@pop.inf.ufsc.br>
From: paim at inf.ufsc.br (Thiago Campos)
Subject: Re: Deprecation

Hi

The deprecations is a way of saying "you are in your own for now on". For 
sure it's not a substitution for any security feature, but the problem is 
always the programmer, us or the JDK developers :)

- Thiago

At 18:57 27/10/2003, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>actually imho the problem is not whether the vulnerable function is
>deprecated when the system has crashed.  The problem is whether Sun employs
>some people who can implement missing null pointer checks in the JDK.
>Deprecation is no security feature at all, good and aware coding in contrast
>is.
>
>Marc
>
>
>--
>
>Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the
>ark; professionals built the Titanic. -- Anonymous
>
>Marc Sch?nefeld Dipl. Wirtsch.-Inf. / Software Developer



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