begin  quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 11:45:57AM -0700:
> Christian Seberino wrote:
> >On Thu, April 12, 2007 9:25 am, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
> >
> >> From a security point of view, this is *good*.  There is a reason I run
> >>Firefox with AdBlock and NoScript.  I don't want others to access my
> >>computer without my knowledge.  Take a look at the Flash preferences
> >>sometime.  Note the Microphone and Webcam icons?  Do you really want
> >>people to be able to access your microphone and webcam from Flash?
> >
> >Yikes.  OK what is the worst that can happen by running Flash?  Are you
> >saying it is a big security hole?  If Flash can access the hard drive that
> >would be a problem.  So any Google Video in Flash can erase files?
> 
> Dunno.  Don't you think you should be able to answer those questions 
> *before* proclaiming that flash is the best solution for dynamic content.
> 

/me awards "Best Point In Thread" award to Andrew.

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