The Ubuntu Experiment

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/7/31 Steve C. Lamb <grey at dmiyu.org>:
>    Some of the common vectors for recent exploits on Windows/IE have come
> through compromised flash banner ads.  One can throw the baby out with the
> bathwater and disable flash completely or one can be a little more fine
> grained and disable the flash banner ads while allowing the other flash
> content which is probably not going to be compromised.

I threw that baby out long ago with the FlashBlock extension. I have
it set to only allow Flash from a few select sites, such as Youtube.

>    Whether that would help on KUbuntu is up for mild debate (probably no
> difference) but since I'm the lone Linux user in the house it probably does
> some good on their windows boxes.

It should help with browser exploits, which are as cross-platform as
the browsers themselves.

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