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 1QaYHp-0008FX-AK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:13:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A0A851C166 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:12:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iw0-f181.google.com (mail-iw0-f181.google.com [209.85.214.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C882A1C19D for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 18:39:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn37 with SMTP id 37so4406584iwn.40 for ; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 11:39:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=3id6wVg3UJqlNPXEfE6awwLZXhIE4RWPY9ez+rb6WwQ=; b=gsIKbGk7DJtYza2TMu1FnKsToz3pTApauFufOK+Z8MQSVHYG5+580j8z6MJw9LuYW8 Wlj74/YWnJZL6IepqzypjVzBcd5A/LlhgE7zMIN83axGKpSJQINReLup8HDL7X2btsWV Tgcid6wPrnjxVTamGfmp+BAvxeRJmiOB4Uw7w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=d7nHQ5cZsldXCu4WeVl8WJa7lR7K6awXquCrJLjgLtXl7OiKSxhQX5rPCfOv+O9XhA vN9JpJFg90w/9xqFta0AmgZ8E2Rds7ykRzriM7s4VuFig2Adll0lkWr/MTO2OYewtDM8 qB7PkYN5WhEic8yS19IIeIsyJc4fwPzhaN+r8= Received: by 10.231.113.12 with SMTP id y12mr4173738ibp.17.1309027176622; Sat, 25 Jun 2011 11:39:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-120-31.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.120.31]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id in11sm2117343ibb.39.2011.06.25.11.39.35 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 25 Jun 2011 11:39:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E062B65.8010503@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 13:39:33 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110606 Gentoo/2.0.14-r1 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] chrome and everything References: <201106021121.52021.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <1843820.dYirHz2lF9@nazgul> In-Reply-To: <1843820.dYirHz2lF9@nazgul> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 2d75ef09537243f712606aa7c54019e0 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. Dale :-) :-)