Indeed, when you set up MyMusic, you can add an Amazon applet and install a music downloader (Mac and Windows are supported, I'm told) that will drop the purchased music wherever .
But then again, neither was the idea of small "applet" programs that blur the line between dormant data and executable .
My only real concern was the way ActiveShield, McAfee's antivirus applet, handled infected e-mail.
Phil Zimmermann in Wired News If you are in a hotel room in Khazakstan or Russia and want to check your mail and you have a laptop, you could be running the Java applet or even running it through SSL,Zimmermann said. "The behaivor of the Hushmail servers is not going...