It may also be worth considering just how many governments love to spy on their citizens using those secret backdoors Hacking Team used on their behalf. Inertia, expense and Adobe’s addition of incredibly useful back-end elements makes it hard for them to efficiently replace. Unfortunately, these organizations lack the momentum to stop using Flash. The only reason Flash remains at all is because so many organizations across government, media companies, advertising firms and elsewhere continue to use it, though why their IT staff permit this is incomprehensible to me. How long does a firm get in which to provide such proof before we hear the fail bell peal? It’s too late, Adobe, we’ve lost patience and you’ve run out of time… I know Adobe claims to be working to improve Flash security, but it has had decades to prove itself. We have been working with Adobe to fix these problems, but they have persisted for several years now,” Jobs wrote.įlash is such a bundle of hurt Facebook’s chief security officer, Alex Stamos, this month said: "It is time for Adobe to announce the end-of-life date for Flash and to ask the browsers to set killbits on the same day.”īrowser developers also appear to be becoming impatient. We also know first hand that Flash is the number one reason Macs crash.
“Symantec recently highlighted Flash for having one of the worst security records in 2009.
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