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karlmdavis on Aug 26, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: New Java 0-day exploit spotted in the wild.

> if I had a choice between jenkins and jenkins-clone-built-with-something-else, all things being equal I would choose jenkins-clone-built-with-something-else

What on earth for? It's not as if the Java binaries on a (non-multi-user) server somehow make it less secure.

tedunangst on Aug 26, 2012 [–]

Even if it is multiuser, they're not installed with any special privileges. You can install java in your home directory.

I can't wait for the day when people get their wish, and 50% of the installed browser base will run random python scripts off the web.

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