Apple changes their browser prefs defaults after hacker attacks?

Apple's Cupertino campus actually got hacked, which is amazing, and it's sad that Java browser plugins were the weak point in their security. Sad but not surprising.

But their decision to change the default settings on their Macs is even more amazing! Shipping browsers with Java plugins turned off? Don't mix this up - we're talking Java, not Javascript, but still, that's pretty amazing.

This means, all of a sudden, there's a wall between Java and Mac users that wasn't there before, and this is something we'll probably see across operating systems in the next little while. And this is a great thing because in-browser Java has always seemed super sketchy to me.