Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10

Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by ceejayoz on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @04:41PM (#25586490)

Not sure why you're being downvoted. Flash needs to go away, for sure, but my kids' teachers have still been assigning Flash websites as school tasks - "play this educational game" sort of stuff - in recent months.

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Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by muhahue on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @04:44PM (#25586526)

My teachers are also using Flash-enabled sites for their quiz and presentation :(

This is simply because the site owners haven't moved on yet for some unknown reasons.

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Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by vmception on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @04:55PM (#25586619)

> for some unknown reasons

ka-ching

educational and government contracts need disruption and this is a symptom

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Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by egypturnash on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @05:42PM (#25587128)

Where "disruption" means "waste a bunch of time and money for people to rebuild something that worked perfectly fine until the entire platform it was built on went belly-up"?

I mean, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, especially if your budget is next to nonexistent.

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Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by dumpsterdiver on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @06:39PM (#25587685)

> I mean, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, especially if your budget is next to nonexistent.

Oh, it was broken alright. From a security perspective, Flash was a nightmare to the extent that you almost had to wonder if Adobe was making it vulnerable on purpose. By using Flash today, organizations are putting themselves and their users at serious risk. Ransomware, identity theft, all of the bad things. School children would be an easy target for hackers to gain access to the parents computer, so it's especially appalling that learning software is still using Flash.

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-53/p...

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Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by trthomps on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @06:08PM (#25587397)

Maybe building on proprietary platforms was a bad idea from the start and a poor investment of public resources.

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Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by Laforet on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @06:47PM (#25587757)

Back in the early 2000s there were no equivalent to flash in terms of features and ease of use. It's bordering on whig history criticising people back then for not going FOSS

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Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by tinus_hn on Thursday December 31, 2020 @03:31AM (#25590761)

Well, that problem will quickly fix itself because now that will just not work and there is no workaround. And coincidentally that is why you need to make sure there is 100% no workaround.

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