[OpenID] Flex OpenID Component

[Eddy Nigg (StartCom Ltd.)]

On 02/20/2009 11:09 PM, SitG Admin:
> I'm wary of Flash for another reason, related to privacy; I've noticed 
> that Flash games reload in Firefox (I regularly flush every aspect of 
> my cache, etcetera, to reset Firefox), but then they *remember my 
> progress* - as if Firefox is preserving some *settings* for that Flash 
> application, and these aren't affected by any reset I know how to do. 
> This sounds like interactive Flash, and *that* (the idea that it could 
> communicate back to a server information like whether the user had 
> newly entered their URI or had it stored from previous activity) seems 
> very risky to me.
>

Flash have their own cookies and my store other stuff too. You can edit 
your settings and deny storing of cookies and other files. Besides that 
I'd agree that Flash isn't a particular synonym for "secure".

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