On Monday 02 November 2009 21:59:49 Richard Creighton wrote:
Many are executed without the knowledge or permission of the owner of the machine and as they are able to open and gather data stored in other LOS files on your system, over a period of time, a huge amount of information is accumulated and distributable to anyone who knows they are there.
Update to Flash 8 or later (openSUSE is using 10), and configure it not to store anything, if you have problem with that. I don't, but as experiment I disabled them, to see how it will influence my web experience. I expect more of normal browser cookies, when flash one fails, and a bit slower start up of flash animations. Here is the link to setup: http://kb2.adobe.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_mana... Rob's blog is dated 2008-10-16, so he should know about Flash 8 and later, and also about Setup page, specially as Gnash insider. Listing problems, but forgetting to mention Flash setup page where you can disable use of tracking is serious omission. Article appears like plain propaganda, and I can't trust more the one that is using the same methods as those that he is trying to discredit. Besides I'm not sure that term third party is used correctly. For Adobe the third party is third party vendor; anyone that is not Adobe. When we talk about browser cookies the third party is considered web site that is not in the same domain as the one that set up original cookie. To clear up question, does domain1.com can read domain2.com files, one has to create flash cookie with no restrictions who can use it, if it is possible, and let domain1 server set it, then try to read that one from domain2. If it is possible than that is a serious bug, if not then it is not different from browser cookies. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org