plug-in extensions to HTML browsers
website control of your webcam: Web sites advertisers can now silently access your camera and/or microphone and write up to 13 copies of a new type of cookie that was quietly introduced last year. It’s officially called the Local Shared Object (LSO), commonly called a Flash cookie. More persistent and much more dangerous than HTTP cookies, it can hold 100 kb of binary data...
Problem with Flash on 64 bit computers Turns out Flash has problems in all 64 bit operating systems. Internet-Explorer-64-bit does not even work with Flash. Adobe is preparing to discontinue the Flash player plug-in (see below). Microsoft is providing an alternative by including the old Internet-Explorer-32-bit in 64 bit Windows 7. Another Good Reason to remove Flash from 32 bit computers website control of...