[ale] mint 13 vm running out of storage space

[Scott Plante]

You seem to have misunderstood what the security issues with Java are all about. Java in the browser is supposed to let random websites run their code at will on your computer, and it's supposed to put strict but varying control on what that code can do based on various factors. It's a very difficult problem and the more the base language can do, the harder it is. All the various browser plugins, plus base browser code for JavaScript and even css have security problems that crop up and are fixed. The recommendation is not to allow Java to run in your browser, and if you don't use Java, just to uninstall it. That's more for your mom's PC where she's just doing general web browsing or something. If you don't use Java at all, it might make sense to not install it "just in case". But when you run Eclipse as a user process, Java code is under all the same restrictions (and no more) than native apps are under. Just because it's Java doesn't mean someone on the interwebs will be able to connect to your Eclipse session remotely and hack your machine, unless the Eclipse authors coded it that way. You also have to consider that running virtual box and a whole additional OS instance inside a VM introduces all new potential attack vectors for hackers, so you may lose more than you gain especially when the gain from installing Java in a VM rather than on your main desktop (but not in the browsers) is very close to nil. 


Scott 

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From: "Ron Frazier (ALE)" <atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> 
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org> 
Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2013 6:15:16 PM 
Subject: Re: [ale] mint 13 vm running out of storage space 


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The host computer intentionally doesn't have java on it for security reasons. So I cannot run eclipse that way. 
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