New whitehouse.gov video requires proprietary Adobe Flash player
Privacy activists rightly complained about whitehouse.gov’s use of YouTube videos for President Obama’s weekly addresses, as it allowed a private third-party company to use cookies to track visitors to a government web site. The whitehouse.gov site appears to have responded to these complaints but in so doing has adopted a flash format that is not playable using free software. See below for how it renders on a Debian Lenny GNU/Linux system using Iceweasel and gnash: 
The whitehouse.gov site should take one more step towards openness and privacy-preservation by using an open audio-video format such as Ogg-Theora for all its weekly addresses.
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