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On Saturday 25 June 2011 13:39:33 Dale did opine thusly: |
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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 |
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> > 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 |
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> those related to flash. If you don't want to believe me or Alan, |
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> 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 |
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> the same from numerous people. If they are only half right, it is |
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> still a 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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Well there's a few options: |
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Adobe could publish the entire Flash spec so that projects like gnash |
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could implement them fully |
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or the web could largely use something else instead like HTML5 |
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Both options are unlikely, more's the pity |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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