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So the way and applet that can enhance network security is that the applet can only run as it is told to run. Not accessing files, read or write access, etc. Can an applet be written to be malicious to a network?

Does the core issue depend on who wrote the code?

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Can an applet be written to be malicious to a network?

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Malicious applets can do bad things to your host and network. Following are some examples of malicious activities.

* Forging mail in the computer owner's name.
* Stealing CPU cycles to perform the applet coder's own work covertly at the expense of the benign ...

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