This week's book giveaway is in the Agile and other Processes forum. We're giving away four copies of The Mikado Method and have Ola Ellnestam and Daniel Brolund on-line! See this thread for details.
I'm writing a program that read and writes object streams from an applet to a server and back. Is there any security issues to take under consideration when a port is opened on the firewall and read/write over socket?