I really hate the crapware, and I hate more the "opt-out" crapware. But the "summary" of the article is a little unfair:
Oracle's Java plugin for browsers is a notoriously insecure product. Over the past 18 months, the company has released 11 updates, six of them containing critical security fixes. [...]
The updates and security fixes include not only the plugin, but all the Java runtime that is much bigger and complex. (For example, one of the updates was: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpuoct... ). This is like accusing Chome or Dropbox of being insecure, because they do a lot of updates (that are automatic, invisible and don't offer crapware).
Oracle's Java plugin for browsers is a notoriously insecure product. Over the past 18 months, the company has released 11 updates, six of them containing critical security fixes. [...]
The updates and security fixes include not only the plugin, but all the Java runtime that is much bigger and complex. (For example, one of the updates was: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpuoct... ). This is like accusing Chome or Dropbox of being insecure, because they do a lot of updates (that are automatic, invisible and don't offer crapware).