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Comment on Flash Cookies: The Silent Privacy Killer by jeanette

jeanette — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:08:28 +0000

This artical is so correct about the Adobe flash player. I noticed 3 weeks ago when i needed to download an Actvix player for a certain programme, right after downloading the pc was giving me trouble. I could not even scroll, as it was going so fast and would not allow me to click at all.So it was making it impossible to see most things. I also am encountering other problems since the download. I have Norton antivirus, whic i paid for and works well. So this showed no virus.I then realised myself it was the flash player THAT HAD UPSET MY PC

Comment on Flash Cookies: The Silent Privacy Killer by jeanette

jeanette — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:00:11 +0000

This artical is so correct about Adobe flash. On a few accounts I have had to download on I have had a few problems.. but not like the ones I had the last time It is almost impossible right after downloading to even scroll down.it just runs away! so makes it impossible to see most things. Also a lot of other problems with my pc since 3 weeks ago. I have Norton antivirus which i paid for, and works well. It shows no virus at all. I was convinced myself this was Adobe flash that has upset my pc.

Comment on Digg Comment Tracker - see replies to your digg comments with RSS! by Michael Scott

Michael Scott — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:18:12 +0000

This is a fantastic tool. I have it sitting in my Google Reader. Now I don’t feel that urge to constantly go back to Digg, seeing if someone has responded to my smarmy comment.

Comment on Flash Cookies: The Silent Privacy Killer by Jose_X

Jose_X — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:56:36 +0000

hedora, the biggest privacy threat by far is the application people call “Windows” or occasionally “Vista”. It stores and stores and hides from you and obscures and then ships out onto the net. If people trust Windows, that sees *everything* you do on a PC, why would they worry about Sony or Adobe or Google or anyone else whose ability to store anything about you ultimately depends on Microsoft giving them that right? [..since all their applications rely on calls made to Windows libraries for even basic things like using memory, files, and running the application ..eg, in the case of Google, the browser]

In Linux you know what you have and where they can get you if you let them [you may not know but other third party developers do (including the very paranoid ones)]. Of course, I am talking about open source software.

Comment on Voting for the lesser of two evils, political inactivity, debates by Brett

Brett — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 22:59:49 +0000

Couldnt agree with you more about how debates are just “dog and pony shows.”

There are organizations dedicated to bringing much needed debate reform: http://www.opendebates.org

Comment on Viewing Unencrypted Wifi Traffic in 5 Minutes or Less by John

John — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:26:42 +0000

doesn’t work with dell xps .. the interface appears as ‘wlan0′ in iwconfig but not under wireshark’s interface list .. only the ‘loopback’ and ‘any’ interface appears

Comment on Students take field trip to a peers autopsy by Matt

Matt — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:25:36 +0000

Her friends always used to tell her she was beautiful on the inside…man were they wrong!

Comment on Flash Cookies: The Silent Privacy Killer by hedora

hedora — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:47:46 +0000

Under linux, this works. Perhaps something similar will work in windows and / or macos:

1) Remove all flash settings. Shutdown web browser, then:
cd ~
rm -rf .macromedia
2) Restore clean defaults:
(startup flash, go to settings manager, turn off storage in global tab)
3) It still stores per-site data. This sets the flash settings directory to be read only, hopefully preventing per-site data storage for good:
chmod -R -w ~/.macromedia

Comment on Tool: Wikipedia Edits by DaveC

DaveC — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 00:14:24 +0000

I can’t decide if I want to share this with anyone here at work or not! I’d rate the post at least a 4, but that functionality appears to be blocked (Firefox w/ noscript, blocking all the Google stuff).

Comment on Web Tools by plum

plum — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:15:40 +0000

I do’t like this I still have not got my chips