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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on August 20, 2007, 10:52 pm
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____/ plenty560@yahoo.com on Tuesday 21 August 2007 02:49 : \____
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to rid my Linux installation of all potential corporate
> spyware, seeing as how (A) the companies may be up to no good
> for their own purposes and (B) they companies' software may be
> conduits for the US government, to allow the Feds to spy
> on Linux users. Now that spying is apparently the Feds' #1 priority
> (and that of the Democratic whores in Congress) I have to
> take this a little more seriously.
>
> My present goal is to avoid the use of Adobe flash plug-in.
> I think I saw that there is a free flash compiler out there,
> but anybody know if there is a free player?
>
> If not, perhaps one safe thing I can think of to do is to only
> run Firefox (Windows version) in Wine, which I assume can't peruse
> my system without someone writing a virus specifically to
> attack Wine. If I run the Linux version of Firefox with the
> plug-in, presumably that gives them a back door into
> my entire system.
>
> Or, perhaps I can just create a new user & group for
> flash-enabled web browsing that can't access anything
> else on my system and put the plug-ins in ~/.mozilla.
> Hmm, I think I just solved my problem.
There is some GNU stuff out there.
http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/wiki/
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
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