[OSM-talk] Flash and open source

[jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com]

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On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Gervase Markham <gerv-gmane at gerv.net>wrote:

> On 14/05/10 23:51, Richard Fairhurst 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.
>
> Sadly, the definition of how browser plugins work means that they are
> fully-privileged native code. There's not much you can do about that. I
> guess it would be technically possible to define a new plugin standard
> that was sandboxed in some way, but it would be an enormous effort, and
> no-one would rewrite their plugins to use it.
>
> Gerv
>
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