Flash Local Shared Object storage security issue? I have encountered some strange behavior when navigating through the flash Local Shared Object folders on my computer running OS X version 10.11.5

The behavior is as follows:


Navigate to the base local shared object storage cd ~/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash\ Player/
Navigate through the shared object using the below path cd \#SharedObjects/6MB4PXSB/skype.com/
On this path is another folder named "#ui"


If I change the directory to the #ui folder it takes me back to home folder i.e. it is the equivalent of typing cd ~

Listing the contents of parent folder shows the following:

&gt; ls -latr
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  3 myuser  staff  102 Jun 17 12:07 ..
drwxr-xr-x  3 myuser  staff  102 Jun 17 12:07 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 myuser  staff  102 Jun 17 12:07 #ui


I do not see any symbolic links from #ui to my home folder so I am not sure why this is happening.  I have tested this repeatedly and it consistently takes me to my home folder.

My questions are:


Is this a security issue?
Is it safe for me to do an rm -rf #SharedObject given the observed behavior?
# is used by the shell to indicate a comment. So if you type

cd #ui


everything after the # is ignored and you basically just execute cd. To change into the directory, use one of

cd ./#ui
cd \#ui


instead.

The same applies if you want to remove it.