On Tuesday 03 November 2009 23:07:18 Basil Chupin wrote:
On 04/11/09 20:57, Rajko M. wrote: ... However, why don't those vendors simply disallow such "hideous....not warranted files.." in the first instance?
Because the end users of Flash are not the only users that Adobe has to please. Taking how much we pay for Flash Player, there will be none if the other part of Adobe users will not pay, and they will not if some part that they find usable is disabled by default.
Why code their applications to allow this and then leave the users to work out how to protect themselves from these "backdoors" [my term, by way of a quick description]?
Internet provides no privacy. Fire on particular vendor for allowing some kind of cookies, while tens of other services, including your ISP, know a lot more about you and your habits, is IMNSHO, plain unjust.
as root REMOVE 'write' and 'execute' privileges for ~/.macromedia
While "as root" sounds like a serious business, files are still in user possession (tilde in ~/.macromedia, tells me that it is in user directory) and Flash can change permissions, as it is run by the user.
Ce?
While the user has possession of the .macromedia directory Flash cannot write to this directory. I've tried this out last night on several sites.
Perhaps it is because I am using Firefox and have the above mentioned extensions installed?
Probably no, if you see flash running. Although, some programs will not attempt to change them. I can imagine that program designed for windows will lack part that will check and fix (repair) permissions.
Or is it perhaps that the security in Linux does not allow any permissions to be altered by a user but only by root?
Hmm, no. Read, write, execute I can change on files that *belong* to me, but I can't change owner.
BC
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