Re: [gentoo-user] chrome and everything

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Saturday 25 June 2011 13:39:33 Dale did opine thusly:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > This will never change, because you can't pick up a turd by the
> > clean end.
> 
> ROFLMBO  That is so true.
> 
> I have to add.  I subscribe to some service that emails security
> problems, usually when they are fixed but anyway.  I get a LOT of
> those related to flash.  If you don't want to believe me or Alan,
> this is what
> 
> is on the end of the emerge process:
> > WARN (postinst)
> > 
> > Flash player is closed-source, with a long history of security
> > issues.  Please consider only running flash applets you know to
> > 
> > be safe.  The 'flashblock' extension may help for mozilla users:
> >   https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433
> 
> I have never got anything comet wouldn't get rid of but I have read
> the same from numerous people.  If they are only half right, it is
> still a buggy piece of software.
> 
> I just wish there was a really good alternative that was secure.  I
> don't know of any tho.

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


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