Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10

Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by protoman3000 on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @05:46PM (#25587162)

Imagine if OS vendors and Intel decided to attempt to install microcode updates that fix severe vulnerabilities on your machine and essentially reach into everyone’s machines and delete what they don’t want!

The frog continues to boil slowly...

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Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by Roritharr on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @05:58PM (#25587289)

Imagine if the President told the NSA to remove every copy of a file. the pathway you've described would be potentially viable to reach a large majority of files in storage someplace.

Terrifying thought.

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Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by protoman3000 on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @06:04PM (#25587363)

Have always this piece handy

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...

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Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by cesarb on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @06:54PM (#25587814)

> remove every copy of a file

I vaguely recall that this (or something similar) was one of the worries about Palladium/NGSCB back in the day.

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Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10 by rightbyte on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @06:00PM (#25587318)

Child's play compared to add data to a specific file ...

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