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Bug in Flash Player allowed Mac webcam spying
Engineers on Thursday patched a hole in Adobe's ubiquitous Flash Player that allowed website operators to silently eavesdrop on visitors' webcam and microphone feeds without permission. To be attacked, visitors needed to do no more than visit a malicious website and click on a handful of buttons like the ones in this live …
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Friday 21st October 2011 12:14 GMT Peter Mc Aulay
Useless features
From day one I've wondered why Flash would ever need microphone or webcam access, and to this day I've yet to see a single legitimate use for it. Get rid of it if you can't secure it properly Adobe, sheesh. And while you're at it, take Javascript and other rubbish "active content" support out of your PDF reader...
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Wednesday 26th October 2011 16:45 GMT Gordon Fecyk
Provide the functionality, and someone will use it.
"From day one I've wondered why Flash would ever need microphone or webcam access."
At least one conference app (GVO Live) is written in Flash. It's pretty slick, too. YouTube uses it to record videos from a user's camera instead of making the user upload it.
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