Flash as spyware

[Bill Sconce]

I just came across this.  (Thanks to Bill McGonigle)

    http://wiki.mozilla.org/Roadmap_Scratchpad

    ...Cookies provide limited storage space (on the order of a few 
    kilobytes), require the application developer to manually encode
    and decode any structure more complex than a simple string, and
    are transmitted back to the server on each request. In response
    to these limitations, some application developers are using the
    Flash plugin simply to gain access to a reliable and capable 
    local store.
    

If there hadn't been reasons to avoid Flash before, that's one. 
"Cookies" which even the browser doesn't know about.  Sweet.

(Did anyone here know that installing Flash gives websites the
ability to write to and read from your hard disk?  I didn't.)

A "reliable and capable local store".  Botmasters must *love*
Flash.

-Bill