Flash as spyware

Tom Buskey tom at buskey.name
Tue Apr 4 08:34:01 EDT 2006


On 4/3/06, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:
<stuff deleted>

 I found it
> interesting they also have a preference to control when a website can
> use your microphone and webcam via Flash.  Gawsh, I hope that prefs
> code isn't buggy!


There's some research somewhere that can guess passwords by listening to the
keystrokes with a microphone.  That'd be an interesting attack vector.




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