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Re:Two more Flash 0-days emerge in Hacking Team leak by cormullion on Sunday July 12, 2015 @02:27PM (#9874372)
I was going to agree with you, but I've just double-checked, and you CAN access video content on the BBC sites on a desktop (MacOS X Safari) by setting your User-Agent to iPad. However, it's important that you've removed Flash completely from your system (using Flash Uninstaller), rather than just disable Flash (hoping to use Click-To-Flash). For some reason, they detect Flash by some kind of file-path-detection code...
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Re:Two more Flash 0-days emerge in Hacking Team leak by joosters on Sunday July 12, 2015 @03:44PM (#9874657)
That's irritating! I'll have to take a closer look at what they are doing, as I'd like to keep flash around on a click-to-run basis.

I'm surprised that websites can do any kind of file path detection on a client...

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Re:Two more Flash 0-days emerge in Hacking Team leak by reagency on Sunday July 12, 2015 @04:33PM (#9874853)
What horrible browser lets a website inspect the filesystem without permission?
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Re:Two more Flash 0-days emerge in Hacking Team leak by elktea on Monday July 13, 2015 @03:51AM (#9876895)
Browsers give away far too much information: https://panopticlick.eff.org/
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