GVU's Sixth WWW User Survey Author Graphs

Knowledge Of Java Security

Notes:

For this question, authors were asked to rate their knowledge of Java's security measures as: "None at all", "A little (e.g. could list some of them)", "Moderate (e.g. have read the white paper)", "A lot (e.g. have a thorough understanding of flaws recently found)", or "Expert (e.g. have written code to test them) ".

The largest category said they didn't know anything about Java's security (45.7%). Of those who did know something about it, more than half (54.5%) said they knew "a little". These percentages are nearly identical to the Fifth survey which indicates that authors are not becoming more educated about Java's security even though more are planning to use it and more feel it is secure.

Table of Data for All Categories

Knowledge of Java Security	All	USA	Europe
Expert	23.00 0.86%	16.00 0.85%	1.00 0.48%
Little	787.00 29.55%	555.00 29.33%	73.00 34.93%
Moderately	481.00 18.06%	337.00 17.81%	44.00 21.05%
Not	1218.00 45.74%	874.00 46.19%	74.00 35.41%
Very	154.00 5.78%	110.00 5.81%	17.00 8.13%

For more information or to submit comments:
send e-mail to www-survey@cc.gatech.edu.

GVU's WWW Surveying Team
Graphics, Visualization, & Usability Center
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0280