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 1QaYXW-0003ER-1K for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:29:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CF4941C1FE for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:29:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56E801C1E1 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:19:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwf26 with SMTP id 26so3279303wwf.10 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 12:19:54 -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=A8MA0LQK4JMg7fpYVFufGtCk7oKTr7ydGarPgAOw7QE=; b=ixT8axiRhmQEHv5CG6osPa65Y/CoIk3Wfa9r25GpRymJlc4n6UwbPQhb77xFOh9o41 X5lWggmYKX+y6Dli1hVt7kuOwLJzoeVgM+HK/QFfGIfCn3r+vc5XrH1q+3K8u0H6tKSd jAUflvhdDj0iFmSYIqa6UW2zIv70KPVl4WFfM= 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=c0PsPZ+W8NSRi8X7VPOW/YYb5PEQZM8p6+uhEfu8P3LpiD3bpy2TEI2iPkz4NRrh2T iQcD8GYCEyPt5jA3/x8m0CtU9kiUKkyL7CAp38g9cmqmr1vFzDHQ7Q/sTT5RwRjp/jvZ Mm53nkhZafFpw94CuQkwdV5RqbWkJgefm31ZU= Received: by 10.227.12.18 with SMTP id v18mr4162006wbv.72.1309029594498; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 12:19:54 -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 fu18sm343668wbb.10.2011.06.25.12.19.52 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 25 Jun 2011 12:19:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] chrome and everything Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:18:46 +0200 Message-ID: <3162276.5IZ41qyRys@nazgul> User-Agent: KMail/4.6.0 (Linux/2.6.39-ck; KDE/4.6.4; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <4E062B65.8010503@gmail.com> References: <1843820.dYirHz2lF9@nazgul> <4E062B65.8010503@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: 654f29c6dd8c02a3052f59a496387740 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 -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com