Using Synology Surveillance Station / Java problem

Thanks for the heads-up re Synology's plan to release a stand-alone app at some point in the distant future. I'd appreciate one little bit of extra advise:

If I de-install Java 7 and install Java 6 on Mavericks and specifically limit access to just known url's and block access all other sites is this opening up my machine to risk of hacking?

muximus,

I think you are correct. I think that if one limits Java 6 to LAN access of the Synology, one should be fine. Plus I think the very last Java 6 version plugged similar holes as found in 7. Again, I think if you button down JAVA to the max and only authorize the DS, then one should be fine; as the security issue hinges on visiting a website (directly or through social engineering, spam,...) that was infected with malicious code.

I don't know how the browsers deal with the browser plugin for 6 vs 7 though. The thing is, technically you can run JAVA 6 & 7 side by side, and should be able to run 6 for Synology and 7 for the rest; but I've read somewhere that browsers default to using 6 for everything. And, what I'm not in the mood for is being my own guinea pig and getting nagged constantly by browsers or other updates that my Java is out of date or somehow screw up my system. I'm fresh off a hosed system with the 10.9.2 update, I'd like to keep it running for a while.

Note, that I'm not a security expert nor JAVA expert 🙂

Everything works fine with Google Chrome.

I just wonder why these SW guys at Apple keep on changing things that work perfectly fine just for change sake.

When I want to look at the video in my surveilance folder, everything worked fine in 10.8 with QuickLook (using Perian). Now it doesn't work any more.

Why Apple, why do you change things that work fine into something with reduced funtionality that works sometimes ?