Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10

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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