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Yup, instructors of my brother's Java oriented courses still keep that rhetoric going. Really that statement kept confused me from day 1 since examples to the contrary are easily found via google:

http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=...

And that one is years prior to when I went to school. People can believe whatever they want about the security of their preferred platform but basically any large project is going to have some sort of vulnerability. All it takes is someone with enough gumption to find it.



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