Re: Flash LSOs

2008-09-22 Thread Aidan Gauland
Ah. It seems that Adobe doesn't consider security to be a high priority for their Flash plug-in. Douglas Royds wrote: It isn't worse than cookies. I already maintain my cookies on a white-list basis. What I've described means that I now maintain LSOs that way as well. Aidan Gauland wrote:

Re: Flash LSOs

2008-09-21 Thread Douglas Royds
It isn't worse than cookies. I already maintain my cookies on a white-list basis. What I've described means that I now maintain LSOs that way as well. Aidan Gauland wrote: ... how is this any worse than cookies? Douglas Royds wrote: Did you know that Adobe's Flash allows web-sites to store i

Re: Flash LSOs

2008-09-18 Thread Aidan Gauland
Hang on, don't panic! I'm pretty sure that each site is, by default, limited to 100K. And anyway, how is this any worse than cookies? (Of course, I should just shut up, since I refuse to use Flash, unless I absolutely HAVE to.) :) Douglas Royds wrote: Did you know that Adobe's Flash allows w

Flash LSOs

2008-09-18 Thread Douglas Royds
Did you know that Adobe's Flash allows web-sites to store information on your local HDD? I didn't: http://epic.org/privacy/cookies/flash.html Here they are: $ tree ~/.macromedia /home/roydsd/.macromedia `-- Flash_Player |-- #SharedObjects | `-- UED5REU8 | `-- s.ytimg.com