On Tuesday 03 November 2009 08:15:30 Richard Creighton wrote:
On Tuesday 03 November 2009 02:16:20 am Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
Hi,
not sure and not tested by myself but doesn't Flash allow to control the storage?
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/526/52697ee8.html
Wolfgang
It isn't the ones I *know* about, it is the ones that sneak in uninvited. There doesn't seem to be a good way to keep out the uninvited 'stealth' flookies. I *thought* I had told Adobe Flash to NOT store any of that stuff on my system. Come to find out, the ones I *really* didn't want on my system were the very ones that infested my system. The solution for me, at least, is to eliminate Adobe Flash until and unless there is a uniform way to control it, like 'real' cookies. "Real" cookies can be fine tuned quite well as to who, and when and for how long cookies will be accepted. And, this is easily verifiable. Not so with 'flookies'. Not with closed-source software where there is no way to verify what the code being run does. Flash is a good idea, but as implemented, leaves much to be desired, especially in the arena of system security and user control. Richard
Take a look at the NoScript plugin for Firefox. It allows you to control which scripts can run and which can't, including Flash content. Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.1, Kernel 2.6.27.37-0.1-default, KDE 4.3 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 4GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9200GS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org