Census 2006 -- Linux is OK after all

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 01:41:37AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> I am still out of luck.  There is no Java plugin for x86_64.  I don't
> know why.  There is a free-as-in-beer JRE & JDK from Sun -- I
> installed it to try to do the census form.  It just does not include a
> browser plugin.

That is correct.  I believe blackdown.org's java version does include a
browser plugin for 64bit.

> I considered removing 64-bit Firefox and replacing it with a 32-bit
> version, but the RPM system balked -- too many dependencies (this is
> Fedora Core 5).  I imagine I could have installed an extra Firefox,
> but this was getting too messy.
> 
> Question for those who did it online: in what way is Java exploited?
> Could the job have been done as well without it?

I believe they wrote things as a javaplugin in order to implement full
session encryption.  Why they couldn't do this with https and forms, I
have no idea.

Len Sorensen
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