[OSM-talk] Flash and open source

Richard Fairhurst richard at systemeD.net
Sat May 15 09:23:45 BST 2010


John Smith wrote:
> 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.

I think (though I'm absolutely no expert on the situation) that Chrome 
and Safari are working towards that. Certainly Google have said that 
they're planning it:

> We expect to work in the near future with the plug-in vendors to
> securely sandbox them as well.

(from 
http://blog.chromium.org/2008/10/new-approach-to-browser-security-google.html 
)

cheers
Richard




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