plenty560@yahoo.com wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to rid my Linux installation of all potential corporate
> spyware, seeing as how (A) the companies may be up to no good
> for their own purposes and (B) they companies' software may be
> conduits for the US government, to allow the Feds to spy
> on Linux users. Now that spying is apparently the Feds' #1 priority
> (and that of the Democratic whores in Congress) I have to
> take this a little more seriously.
>
> My present goal is to avoid the use of Adobe flash plug-in.
> I think I saw that there is a free flash compiler out there,
> but anybody know if there is a free player?
>
> If not, perhaps one safe thing I can think of to do is to only
> run Firefox (Windows version) in Wine, which I assume can't peruse
> my system without someone writing a virus specifically to
> attack Wine. If I run the Linux version of Firefox with the
> plug-in, presumably that gives them a back door into
> my entire system.
>
> Or, perhaps I can just create a new user & group for
> flash-enabled web browsing that can't access anything
> else on my system and put the plug-ins in ~/.mozilla.
> Hmm, I think I just solved my problem.

Do you really think that the Feds (who ever they are) are the least bit
interested in what you get up to? Unless of course you happen to be a drug
dealing torrorist activist called Laden, in which case we would all want
the Feds to know what you get up to so they can stamp you out.