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posted by cmn32480 on Monday July 25 2016, @09:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the 'bout-time dept.

Mozilla yesterday said it will follow other browser markers by curtailing use of Flash in Firefox next month.

The open-source developer added that in 2017 it will dramatically expand the anti-Flash restrictions: Firefox will require users to explicitly approve the use of Flash for any reason by any website.

As have its rivals, Mozilla cast the limitations (this year) and elimination (next year) as victories for Firefox users, citing improved security, longer battery life on laptops and faster web page rendering.

"Starting in August, Firefox will block certain Flash content that is not essential to the user experience, while continuing to support legacy Flash content," wrote Benjamin Smedberg, the manager of Firefox quality engineering, in a post to a company blog.

Firefox 48 is slated to ship on Aug. 2.

[...]

Firefox is late to the dump-Flash party.

Original Source: http://www.computerworld.com/article/3098606/web-browsers/firefox-sets-kill-flash-schedule.html

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  • (Score: 4, Touché) by Thexalon on Monday July 25 2016, @01:32PM

    by Thexalon (636) on Monday July 25 2016, @01:32PM (#379796)

    Give them a complex, secure password and you will see it on a post-it note.

    A complicated password on a post-it note on a computer monitor is more secure than a simple password stored only in the users' brain. In order to read the post-it, an external bad guy first has to somehow physically get into the room with that computer monitor, and then somehow collect the contents of the post-it without anybody noticing, followed by guessing correctly what that is a password to. By contrast, in order to get the simple password, all they have to do is run an automated dictionary attack from the comfort of their own home or office.

    What I'd actually tell an employee who is keeping their passwords taped to their monitor: "Please keep that in your wallet, not on your monitor."

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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Monday July 25 2016, @07:30PM

    by frojack (1554) on Monday July 25 2016, @07:30PM (#379992) Journal

    A longer easier to remember password is better than the punctuation explosion most password schemes require these days. No, I'm not suggesting "Correct Horse Battery Staple".

    Anything you can't remember without yanking out your wallet (leather or digital) becomes a nuisance and just begs to be written down and posted everywhere.

    Two Factor for the win. One on your phone, another on a usb key locked or hidden in your desk.(Yubico or similar).

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