Adobe fixes critical Flash bugs
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| The last time Flash Player was patched was April, when Adobe repaired the
| Linux and Solaris plug-ins used with the Opera and Konqueror browsers. In
| March, Apple Inc. included a Flash fix in its 2007-003 security update that
| upped Mac OS X to Version 10.4.9.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=operating_systems&articleId=9026824&taxonomyId=89&intsrc=kc_top
Related:
FCC ignores more than 100 years of wisdom
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| In 1883 French cryptographer Auguste Kerckhoffs published a set of six
| design principles for military encryption systems. The second of these
| principles is generally known today under the observation that security
| through obscurity is not security. The Federal Communications Commission
| (FCC) seems not to have read the history books or to be aware of how its
| sister federal agencies develop security standards....
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http://www.infoworld.nl/idgns/bericht.phtml?id=002570DE00740E1800257313005EC092
Gnash - Open Source Flash
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| Gnash is a GNU Flash movie player. Till now it has only
| been possible to play flash movies with proprietary
| software. While there are a few other free flash
| players, none supports anything higher than SWF v4
| at best. Gnash is based on GameSWF, and supports many
| SWF v7 features.
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http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
Ryan, Open Source, and Flash
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| A few weeks back, I had dinner in Seattle with Ryan Stewart and Brian
| Zug. Over the course of several hours we covered a number of topics,
| including a crash course in open source software. Yesterday Ryan posted
| some of what he learned during our conversation, including his
| conclusions about whether or not open sourcing the Flash Player
| was a good idea.
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http://www.sauria.com/blog/2007/04/12/ryan-open-source-and-flash/
Linux video - but for whom?
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| Builder AU, the official media organ for the Australian Linux
| conference, which is underway in Sydney, has released video clips
| of Linux creator Linus Torvalds talking about kernel development.
|
| But GNU/Linux users, the intended target audience, are finding it
| difficult to view the same.
|
| The videos apparently need to be viewed using version 8 of the
| proprietary Macromedia Flash player or above. Fact is there has
| never been a Flash 8 for GNU/Linux. After 7, Macromedia chose to
| release version 9 - on January 16, six months after it was released for
| Windows.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/8687/1090/
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