Microsoft: We're getting rid of Flash by the end of the year - except you can still use it Microsoft confirmed that it plans to end support for Adobe Flash Player in its three browser variants at the end of the year, but the company intends to allow corporate customers to keep the outdated tech on life support beyond that date. In a blog post on Friday, Microsoft program manager Suchithra Gopinath said that the …
How about companies like Microsoft put pressure on Adobe to release the source so that the community can clean it up and keep all those childhood flash games running?
... oh and those few annoying sodding routers where the developers thought a flash config tool was a good idea. Bunch of clowns.
nas devices.
old vSphere and other older vmware products
routers
switches
firewalls
Now will have to be managed by ancient out-of-spec boxes that we keep around for the crappy java interfaces that are_still_shipping_on_devices_we_bought_new_this_week.
I can just see the auditor come in, what is this security hole doing here! Wipe it! Noooo!
Yes, the old games are the ones to suffer.
How about companies like Microsoft put pressure on Adobe to release the source so that the community can clean it up and keep all those childhood flash games running?
https://forums.theregister.com/forum/all/2020/08/25/british_army_scrap_tanks_cyber/#c_4096502
How do they do it for someone using IOS then?
Thanks (sic) to Steve Jobs, that platform has been Flash free for since birth (or thereabouts).
If you don't like that bit of flash trying to load why not try the mobile version of the site by pretending that you are running Safari on IOS?
Flash should have died over a decade ago. Adobe needs to hang its head in shame for keeping it around for so long.
When I worked at the NIST I needed to install Flash to watch a mandatory IT training video which recommended against installing Flash. I not sure there is a better metaphor for the disconnect between NISTs security research/policy recommendations and the clueless numpties implementing the policies.
It not just Intranet, there is a whole raft of management interfaces for firewalls, storages systems and other behind teh scenes stuff that needs to be updated to most recent versions to be able to mange those systems. Unfortunately for many those upgardes may require hardware replacement as teh the systems are no longer supported.
Yes, its shit but it is real life for many sysadmins, not the idealised world we all wished we lived in.
When will this nightmare end? It looks like it is going to be easier to eradicate COVID-19 than Flash.
How about the other way around - dilute flash with warm water and wash regularly to avoid COVID.
At least if we dilute it, then it will gradually disappear.
Unbeknown to most, Flash is still baked into Acrobat - it's used to display any form of multimedia, including video, audio and 3D visualizations. While these are certainly a bit niche, the 3D stuff is fairly widely used within that niche to display technical renderings of machine parts.
Please give one example of something you want to do.
Because a few years ago (and I'm sure it's matured since then), I recompiled a 10-year-old GUI application for Webassembly and - with nothing more than minor tinkering to take account of the browser security DOM when accessing files or network ports (Websockets) - it just worked.
The problem with Flash is that it does nothing that those techs can't do, except when what you "want to do" is something you shouldn't ever be doing in a browser anyway (e.g. local filesystem access).
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