Java in web browsers, disable it!

"Unless it is absolutely necessary to run Java in web browsers, disable it" advises US Dept of Homeland Security

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For anyone who is in any doubt, the US Department of Homeland Security's CERT team has spelled it out in black and white.

Well, when I selected the text in US-CERT's Java security advisory for the purposes of taking a screen-grab, it turned out white on blue.. but you get the idea:

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Better still ... just remove it!
If you have software that requires java I would look for different software that doesn't need it.
What still uses Java anyway? No websites I can think of, the only software I can think of is Vuze, and why people would still be using that is beyond me.