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|    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.       ---        * Origin: (1:3634/12.73)    |
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