Is Flash Player tracking?

I always wondered about the settings in Flash Player.So read this
article and check out your settings,especially if you have a microphone
or camera installed.Some one may be spying on you.
http://www.techweb.com/wire/ebiz/160400719

Note that this article is not referring to any process that enables anyone
else to observe what is being recorded, so whether or not you have a
microphone or camera installed isn't relevant.

"Joe K" wrote in message
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I always wondered about the settings in Flash Player.So read this article
and check out your settings,especially if you have a microphone or camera
installed.Some one may be spying on you.
http://www.techweb.com/wire/ebiz/160400719

Joe in some cases according to the Wall Street Journal indeed a web camera
can be taken over by hackers who can use it to spy on you. That is actually
why I do not use a web camera. Anyway, I read the article you posted and
here is a piece below:

(From the website

"United Virtualities is offering online marketers and publishers technology
that attempts to undermine the growing trend among consumers to delete
cookies planted in their computers.
The New York . . (for shame the state I grew up in) . . company on Thursday
unveiled what it calls PIE, or persistent identification element, . . (sounds
like let us steal your identitiy to me) . . a technology that's uploaded to a
browser and restores deleted cookies. In addition, PIE, which can't be easily
removed . . (it will probably take editing the registry to fully remove this)
.. . , can also act as a cookie backup, since it contains the same
information. "

United Virtualities is just asking for its company to be hacked by
hackers because it is undermining the very security that consumers demand.
Like the Mini 2.5 Keylogger that I got on my system which is actually a $50
program that some evil person must have bought and planted somehow on my
computer.

http://www.invisiblekeylogger.com/64...keylogger.html

The only reason for a company to do something like this is because United
Virtualities is acting like Big Brother in the book 1984 by George Orwell. I
hope Tim is reading this post so that he can have the government file suit
against this company for infringing upon people right to privacy. Perhaps
even Microsoft Corporation would be willing to file suit against them. If
neither are government or Microsoft acts against them then I Dan will
consider suing the company for the safety of all individuals right to privacy
against evil individuals and evil in my opinion companies who try to meet the
needs of evil individuals by making life miserable for all of us by trying to
take away all privacy rights. Heck, I am so fired up now that I think I may
leave my computer off the net and just use the library computer and my
housemate's David's machine so that the evil people are less likely to get my
identity. This also is slowly starting to remind me of the movie "Enemy of
the State" with Gene Hackman. Have a nice night.


"Joe K" wrote:

I always wondered about the settings in Flash Player.So read this
article and check out your settings,especially if you have a microphone
or camera installed.Some one may be spying on you.
http://www.techweb.com/wire/ebiz/160400719

The only reason for a company to do something like this is because United
Virtualities is acting like Big Brother in the book 1984 by George Orwell.

And isn't this quote Orwellian from the website

[Mookie Tanembaum, founder and chief executive of United Virtualities,
says the company is trying to help consumers by preventing them from
deleting cookies that help website operators deliver better services.

"The user is not proficient enough in technology to know if the cookie
is good or bad, or how it works," Tanembaum said.]
end quote
So Tannembaum is telling people you don't know what you are doing so we
will tell you. This kind of reasoning also got all this spyware and
malware and cookies on our computers.
What gets me is my computer is in my home,so they are saying they can
invade my home electronicly and do what they want.
NO WAY IT'S MY COMPUTER

Exactly. The only way around this might be to use the kill bit and disable
the flash player entirely. I am starting to like the flash player less and
less and this may be the final straw. I know my dad has flash technology
disabled because of privacy issues. I hope consumers boycott this company.
It is getting to be really annoying to have to go to such lengths to have a
somewhat okay Internet experience. I am talking about reading emails in
plain text, having to always use secure log-ins, not being able to trust
hardly any attachments, having to scan all files for viruses, realizing that
your computer is not really that safe, realizing Bluetooth can be hacked,
realizing ActiveX is not that safe, etc. Anyway, I can go on all day but I
will spare you Joe. Take care, smile Dan

"Joe K" wrote:



The only reason for a company to do something like this is because United
Virtualities is acting like Big Brother in the book 1984 by George Orwell.

And isn't this quote Orwellian from the website

[Mookie Tanembaum, founder and chief executive of United Virtualities,
says the company is trying to help consumers by preventing them from
deleting cookies that help website operators deliver better services.

"The user is not proficient enough in technology to know if the cookie
is good or bad, or how it works," Tanembaum said.]
end quote
So Tannembaum is telling people you don't know what you are doing so we
will tell you. This kind of reasoning also got all this spyware and
malware and cookies on our computers.
What gets me is my computer is in my home,so they are saying they can
invade my home electronicly and do what they want.
NO WAY IT'S MY COMPUTER