Preface to the First Edition
Give me a lever and a fulcrum, and I can move the globe.
—Archimedes
Since Java technology’s inception, and especially its public debut in the spring of 1995, strong and growing interest has developed regarding the security of the Java platform, as well as new security issues raised by the deployment of Java technology. This level of attention to security is a fairly new phenomenon in computing history. Most new computing technologies tend to ignore security considerations when they emerge initially, and most are never made more secure thereafter. Attempts made to do so typically are not very successful, as it is now well known that retrofitting security is usually very difficult, if not impossible, and often causes ...
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