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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> This will never change, because you can't pick up a turd by the clean end. |
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ROFLMBO That is so true. |
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I have to add. I subscribe to some service that emails security |
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problems, usually when they are fixed but anyway. I get a LOT of those |
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related to flash. If you don't want to believe me or Alan, this is what |
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is on the end of the emerge process: |
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> WARN (postinst) |
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> Flash player is closed-source, with a long history of security |
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> issues. Please consider only running flash applets you know to |
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> be safe. The 'flashblock' extension may help for mozilla users: |
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> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433 |
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I have never got anything comet wouldn't get rid of but I have read the |
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same from numerous people. If they are only half right, it is still a |
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buggy piece of software. |
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I just wish there was a really good alternative that was secure. I |
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don't know of any tho. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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