At 01:01 AM 11/5/2009 -0500, Richard Creighton wrote: /snip/ That article is precisely what I was talking about....not that Adobe, per se, is a villain but that closed source software is often hacked by malicious hacker types and when that happens, there is little or no recourse the end user has to detect and combat it. With Open-Source software, one has a much better chance to detect and combat such hacks. Why is Windows the #1 worst offender and the most leaky, insecure piece of software it is? **************************************************************************** *************** It should be obvious to the most oblivious observer, that Windows is the most prevalent system, so if you want to do the most damage, that's the system you target. No matter how good or bad the Windows system is, that's where the problem is going to be. If Linux, or other Unix systems, were on everybody's desk, and running everybodys network, the skunks would be there instead. **************************************************************************** ************** Closed source. Why is LInux by comparison relatively solid and secure and hard to infest with hacks? Open-Source. Now, I happen to think Adobe Flash does a great job at what it is supposed to do. What I am afraid of is when it is doing something I don't want it to do. Its' very nature, coupled with the fact that it is closed-source, makes hacks that invade the privacy, such as it is, difficult to detect and correct. That is why I keep asking for an open- source alternative /snip/ I admire those that say open source is the answer. But those of us who don't write code are no better off than those who pay for every ap they use, closed source. It would do me absolutely no good at all to have the code for Adobe-- I couldn't read it, nor could I fix it, if it were broken. I hope that this doesn't result in a flame thread, but I do think that it makes sense. --doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org