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Old Jul 23, 2015 | 12:54 pm
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Originally Posted by docbert
The NPAPI interface in the browser is what is considered the security issue, in that it allows plug-ins to potentially do things they shouldn't.

That doesn't in and of itself mean that any plugin that uses it is a security risk. ie, the fact that NSAPI is bad doesn't mean that the United/Panasonic plugin is bad.




Not September, it's already happened several months ago. Their in-flight website states that Chrome is unsupported, although technically it can be made work by re-enabling support for NSAPI in Chrome (it's the ability to re-enable that goes away in September)
So the consensus is to use an iPad and that is safe? I don't have a whole lot of data to protect; I just don't want to leave a gaping hole in my laptop.
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