lee wrote: > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 06:10:58PM +0100, thveillon.debian wrote: >> If you tweak you flashplayer not to cache content locally, just tweak it >> back using the setting panel from Adobe there : >> >> http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html >> >> the image in the upper right part of the page is a setting panel, what >> you set there is set locally on your computer in ~/.macromedia/. > > That is interesting, I haven't given them permission to access that > information. How do I protect myself against that kind of spying? > >
Change your settings and don't allow storage of any data locally (of course the /tmp trick won't work anymore), write a script to "rm -r" ~/.macromedia when you close your browser, or every 15mn, whatever. Use something like "bleachbit" (available in repo). Do your browsing from a live-cd, or a virtual machine and wipe the snapshot afterward. Bind-mount a flash disk partition on "~/.macromedia" on startup, this way there's nothing left on you disk. Use Firefox "better privacy" extension, it can wipe the .macromedia content automatically. Use "flashblock", "noscript", or don't use flash altogether... On the wild wild web privacy is a lost word, security an illusion. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
