From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QaayT-0001H2-1H for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 22:05:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9D9191C09C for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 22:05:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 429B71C063 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:06:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyh22 with SMTP id 22so895600wyh.40 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:06:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding :content-type; bh=GfAv7XLblg9J0zk03d+Xy37vNlbDVD9D6ORNP2m05wA=; b=QS1bBxnusnUAc+5k4bfW+J4Az/zwp1Lt/aoYV4UXy/aro8ll6Sh+LOyCjmEvDiw52S oGAdF/DMoh0+Rp/Z1b31QK4C7liNgQdsFuPo7b6DNNDVDhhBb+dB89gQYPpyjtb9j3N8 UV6Mnx4i0eBVsb6gUxCxusE7nc4ibGaWrrPvw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; b=q29X1FK5Ody3l75VgtG97kuWiBe97JLDCpEVfzb4ba3RnU73eBWHca45FFRzR/k5Q9 xh8H+bt+nzO2iBm0tATeC1nVSQZqqySS1FWnZrzLsEXsiZgNNUjM7UJ2g4PJgQg0ZThS uK0eufK7MiKGsvGvRu1IHOIh1KQXUHB4XOjYA= Received: by 10.216.60.4 with SMTP id t4mr3942677wec.101.1309035977329; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:06:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-183-215.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.183.215]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 74sm2024449wem.17.2011.06.25.14.06.15 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 25 Jun 2011 14:06:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] chrome and everything Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 23:03:35 +0200 Message-ID: <2537798.hkiYzO4V56@nazgul> User-Agent: KMail/4.6.0 (Linux/2.6.39-ck; KDE/4.6.4; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <4E06397C.3070708@gmail.com> References: <3162276.5IZ41qyRys@nazgul> <4E06397C.3070708@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 35f30171808fc4babaa3983b22eea5c0 On Saturday 25 June 2011 14:39:40 Dale did opine thusly: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Well there's a few options: > > > > Adobe could publish the entire Flash spec so that projects like > > gnash could implement them fully > > > > or the web could largely use something else instead like HTML5 > > > > Both options are unlikely, more's the pity > > I know HTML5 is a ways off but I'm hoping it will improve things. > Internet security seems to be a bit of a problem lately. Banks and > such getting hacked is not good. Either the hackers are getting > better or some security people ain't getting the job done. The only significant change is that folks like LuzSec are now looking in places they did not look in before. The software they find is just as good-awful shit quality as it has always been. > I > figure some of both. Add in that hackers seem to be doing things > in groups, finding a hole is not as hard to do. I think that is > also one reason Linux is as secure as it is. There are lots of > people looking at source code so finding problems are happening all > the time. I also think Linux folks jump on problems and get them > fixed quicker too. > > I guess Adobe is going to be a weak spot for a good long while. > That's not good for Linux, M$ or Macs either I guess. > > Dale > > :-) :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com