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   Message 12,217 of 13,597   
   mark lewis to Ed Vance   
   Adobe Flash   
   12 Jul 15 11:29:56   
   
   11 Jul 15 20:03, you wrote to BOB KLAHN:   
      
    EV> I removed Adobe Flash from all of my User Accounts recently. But I   
    EV> will check to see if anything shows up about Flash's hardware   
    EV> acceleration. Thanks!   
      
    EV> I can see YouTube videos just fine since I selected their HTML5   
    EV> setting last month.   
      
   excellent!   
      
    EV> Some websites say they NEED Flash to show me something on their   
    EV> page(s) but so far I am trying to live with out Flash.   
      
   that's the best thing...   
      
    EV> I just read Sophos said a third problem happened to Flash recently.   
      
   yes, a so-called security company got hacked and their sources are now out in   
   the wild... those sources carry the code for many zero-day infiltation   
   methods... a zero-day is an unknown flaw that allows one to break into a   
   system... quite a few of those zero-days are for flash and they are already   
   being exploited in the wild... that's the main reason that adobe has had to   
   release a fix on the heels of their last release and they're already having to   
   release another one on that one's heels... there will be more to come, too...   
   flash has more holes than a window screen...   
      
    EV> If a lot of the websites that I've bookmarked, and like to visit,   
    EV> complain that Flash is needed I guess I'll have to reinstall Flash.   
      
   that's the /wrong/ thing to do... especially if you cannot get today's latest   
   flash release that patches the above mentioned zero-day flaws... to continue   
   to run flash on an unsupported OS is dancing naked with the devil in the   
   bright moon light... you should rethink this while also considering what they   
   are using flash for... many are for nothing but ads... sites requiring flash   
   are more about pretty instead if functionality... there's a lot of bandwidth   
   wasted, too, compared to a functional site that doesn't use flash at all...   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
   ... The four seasons are salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar.   
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