Re: My new toy

From:
Andrew Thompson <andrewthommo@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:51:37 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<ad75c387-133e-4ee3-a716-b6b77cea5325@i8g2000pro.googlegroups.com>
On Aug 30, 12:50 pm, Roedy Green <see_webs...@mindprod.com.invalid>
wrote:

On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:58:19 -0700 (PDT), Andrew Thompson
<andrewtho...@gmail.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :

But if you want to get daring, you might try an
online compiler, and a place to host (short) code
samples for 7 days while asking for help on forums.

....

My ISP warned me I have to do everything with an eye to somebody
maliciously trying to foul things up.


The on-line code examples provides a 'barn door'
of possible security/use problems, unfortunately
(the main reason I removed my own site's online
compiler).

Off the top of my head..
1) Trying to upload source that is 53 Meg
2) Inclusion of tawdry (racist, sexist, ...)
or advertising/spam material in code samples.
3) Particular types of code have been known to
tie up the javac compiler for a *long* time,
resulting to a DOS attack. (Though sometimes,
it might be unintentional on the part of the
user). I don't know if the compiler has been
improved since that time, and have lost the
source that demonstrated the effect.

--
Andrew T.
pscode.org

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