Re:YouTube Ditches Flash, and It Hardly Matters
by dredmorbius on Saturday February 07, 2015 @08:06AM
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The virtualization layer becomes a single point of concentration for both security and attack. That offers opportunities to reduce the attack surface and opportunity.
Net net, given the choice of extensive plug-ins vs. virtualization, I'll go with the latter.
Re:YouTube Ditches Flash, and It Hardly Matters
by fnordfnordfnord on Saturday February 07, 2015 @08:35AM
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Agree that eating less shit sandwich is better than eating more. But it's still a shit sandwich.
> You are absolutely deluded, if not stupid, if you think that a worldwide collection of software engineers who can't write operating systems or applications without security holes, can then turn around and suddenly write virtualization layers without security holes.