Even the EU shores up Adobe Flash now

In a bizarre twist of fate, Viviane Reding one of the non-democratically elected EU Commissioners put up her weekly video entitled "Protecting privacy in the digital age", in the privacy invading Adobe Flash format. This gives a privacy problem like the following screenshot (example I'd saved, she's not using youtube from what I could tell):



I've written about the security and privacy flaws in Flash before. Due to Flash being a proprietary binary that the user has no control over, it can happily just ignore all the cookie and privacy settings in the browser. Happily sending and receiving cookies, as well as maintaining a large set of cached files and data locally that the user is unaware of.

All we need now is for the information commissioner to advocate Adobe Flash, seeing as he's already using unique google tracking cookies to monitor the populace for two years.

I wonder how much/commission_barroso/reding/_bin/favideo/skins/ClearOverAll.swf cost us all to make, on top of the £556 price for a copy of Adobe "Flash Pro CS4" (dabs.com price). Not a good use of our EU taxpayers money!