You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again (Wired) [LWN.net]

You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again (Wired)

Posted Aug 11, 2009 19:08 UTC (Tue) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767)
In reply to: You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again (Wired) by tavis
Parent article: You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again (Wired)

> Is there any good reason not to just run a cron or init script that deletes everything in ~/.macromedia?

Is there any good reason that the plugin's behavior is not illegal?

If I invite someone over for dinner, I don't expect them to dig through my dresser drawer to find my spare door key and have a copy made so that they can let themselves in later.

its probably in the EULA

Posted Aug 13, 2009 8:08 UTC (Thu) by alex (subscriber, #1355) [Link] (1 responses)

I'd be fairly sure this behaviour is somewhere in Flash's EULA (not that I have checked).

its probably in the EULA

Posted Aug 13, 2009 12:26 UTC (Thu) by micka (subscriber, #38720) [Link]

... which doesn't mean it is legal.
When something written in a contract is not legal, it is just considered as if it where not written at all, the rest being still valid.