Freaky Flash 6 Fishy Features

donpardo writes "I upgraded to Flash 6 last week (to patch a security hole). When I right clicked on a Flash ad at abcnews.com, and pulled down to Settings I got a tabbed dialogue box asking if I wanted to give them access to my cam and microphone. Clicking through on the tabs revealed that the microphone and the camera had already been detected and that the microphone was active. I doubt the camera or the microphone were sending information out but this still seems invasive. Here are Macromedia's statements about the mic and the camera. In addition there is a setting to ask how much information the site can store on your computer. The default value is 100K. According to the information statement "Data can be anything from your user name to your current score in an interactive game to a list of stocks in your portfolio ... The data is not public, but the privacy of this data depends on the policies of the web site where the movie is hosted."" I thought the first sentence of this submission was telling ...

Comments

1st post

[mhamel]

wow

Privacy is dead

[56ker]

Sounds like yet another loophole unscrupulous crackers could exploit.

Re:fp fp fp mothafuckas!

[Anonymous Cowrad]

AC's are assheads.

I claim this AC's first post for Alton Brown.

Time to break out the sexy sock puppets!

[Anonymous Coward]

Mr.Sock: Hello sexy thing, how are you today?
Mrs.Sock: I just got out of the washer so i'm so fresh and so clean clean.
Mr.Sock: Were a great pair.
Mr.Sock: Aren't we though.
Mrs.Sock:Lets get dirty!
Guy watching my camera: Hey Larry, pass the chips. I think i've just hit the jackpot.

Re:Internet Awareness Anyone?

[bayankaran]

you idiot from macromedia...why did you guys do this in the first place...you guys are no different from adobe or microsoft...you are perverts.

Re:a bit alarmist, no?

[Torinaga-Sama]

Please write back when you have a comment that makes sence.