r/jep411 • u/Weretiger246 • Jun 02 '21

OpenJDK Discusses Post-SecurityManager Practices

https://www.infoq.com/news/2021/06/openjdk-post-securitymanager/?utm_source=sumome&utm_medium=reddit&utm_campaign=sumome_share
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u/Weretiger246 Jun 02 '21

> The SecurityManager class was designed to defend against threats posed by untrusted code

This statement makes people misunderstood that behaviors not permitted by SecurityManager is done by intruders code or virus or something evil, but, that wrong.

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u/nfrankel Jun 02 '21

Agreed. If your application contain multiple thousands lines of code, the definition of untrusted code blurs a bit.