[OSM-talk] Flash and open source

[John Smith]

On 15 May 2010 08:51, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
> It's a frickin' browser plugin, if the browser is letting it access your
> l337 credit card details then the browser probably ought to address its
> plugin architecture. Badly written Flash may crash my browser but it has
> not yet sent my credit card details to Tajikistan. And even Potlatch
> doesn't crash it, so it must have to be _really_ badly written to cause
> a problem. ;)

Browser plugin security is a joke and has been for a very long time,
and as far as I'm aware nothing has been reported publicly that
anything is being done to fix the situation.