Thanks to Miko Wakabayashi
for this link.
“Java co-author and Sun Microsystems evangelist James Gosling
said Tuesday that the recent spate of viruses and worms affecting
corporations worldwide is a result of Windows’ and Windows NT’s
structure, and that Unix, Linux, and Java environments are almost
entirely immune.”
“Microsoft employees themselves were hit by last week’s worm…
“You can always do more for security. So far there’s not any great
solution to it,” said Jim Allchin, senior vice president of the
business enterprise division at Microsoft…”
“Allchin suggested that corporations take steps, including wide
use of anti-virus methods… “Putting in process restraints on
getting code is better than technology changes in the operating
system,” said Allchin…”
“But that flies in the face of what Java’s Gosling said Tuesday.
Such architectural technologies as the “sandbox” in Java and the
network-oriented design of Unix and Linux can largely prevent such
invasions, Gosling said, adding that hacking Unix is not
impossible, but has proven rare in recent years, whereas
Windows-based problems seem to be accelerating.”