Firefox/4.0b8pre SeaMonkey/2.1b2pre   
   From: Dave Yeo    
      
   tholen@antispam.ham wrote:   
   > I've been successfully using Firefox for OS/2 to perform Internet   
   > banking for some time.  Beginning in October, after my bank made   
   > some changes to their Internet banking software, I could no longer   
   > log in.  In attempting to trouble-shoot this problem, a representative   
   > of the bank first told me that I needed to have Flash installed to   
   > see the "Authentication image".  I certainly didn't need Flash to do   
   > that prior to October.  Then I was told that Flash is needed for   
   > cookies, which strikes me as grasping at straws to find an explanation   
   > for why it no longer works.  I can image that Flash has the ability   
   > to set cookies, but why would an Internet banking software provider   
   > use Flash to set cookies simply to log in?   
   >   
      
   Flash cookies are more persistent and harder to examine. Unluckily Flash    
   itself seems to be more insecure with perhaps half of recent browser    
   vulnerabilities being Flash related.   
   Scary that your bank wants to force its users to use Flash, especially    
   if they have no way to filter out older versions.   
   Dave   
      
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