On Thu, April 12, 2007 9:25 am, Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > From a security point of view, this is *good*. There is a reason I run > Firefox with AdBlock and NoScript. I don't want others to access my > computer without my knowledge. Take a look at the Flash preferences > sometime. Note the Microphone and Webcam icons? Do you really want > people to be able to access your microphone and webcam from Flash?
Yikes. OK what is the worst that can happen by running Flash? Are you saying it is a big security hole? If Flash can access the hard drive that would be a problem. So any Google Video in Flash can erase files? > I just want to smack the web heads some days, though. We are just > starting to emerge from the Bad Old Days(tm) of single company dominance > on the web thanks to Firefox finally having a large enough share to > punch Microsoft. And they want to hand the keys to the kingdom back > over to another proprietary monopoly. Wait. Why isn't an open source clone going to save the world again? Chrihs -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
