Adobe's security chief praises Apple for Flash-crippling move

#1 Macworld

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Posted 10 May 2012 - 03:16 PM

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#2 tfrogh

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Posted 11 May 2012 - 05:44 AM

When can we applaud Adobe for building a decent upgrade engine. Their software update component for Flash is VERY slow to ever recommend installing a new version. If I manually check, their web page is happy to tell me my version is old but then fails to offer me new.

I look forward to the day Flash dies.

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Posted 11 May 2012 - 08:03 AM

tfrogh, on 11 May 2012 - 05:44 AM, said:

Flash prompts when there is an update available. I believe it has done so since version 10. And with version 11.3, it will update automatically in the background.

"I look forward to the day Flash dies."

Ditto.

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Posted 11 May 2012 - 08:23 AM

It's nice that they've acknowledged Apple's move to block their buggy old software. But don't take anything from their security chief too seriously. He's the same idiot that tells everybody to upgrade to the latest paid version of Photoshop to avoid a security hole rather than offering older verisons a patch. Lazy, greedy and offensive is no way to provide security to customers.

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Posted 11 May 2012 - 08:24 AM

BdotEss, on 11 May 2012 - 08:03 AM, said:

tfrogh, on 11 May 2012 - 05:44 AM, said:

Flash has had a System Preference pane to fix those auto-update settings for some time now.

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Posted 11 May 2012 - 09:29 AM

warlock7, on 11 May 2012 - 08:23 AM, said:

He's the same idiot that tells everybody to upgrade to the latest paid version of Photoshop to avoid a security hole rather than offering older verisons a patch.

Apple effectively told PowerPC users the same thing when they stopped updating Leopard and Safari 5.0...

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Posted 13 May 2012 - 04:29 PM

Hawaiian717, on 11 May 2012 - 09:29 AM, said:

warlock7, on 11 May 2012 - 08:23 AM, said:

He's the same idiot that tells everybody to upgrade to the latest paid version of Photoshop to avoid a security hole rather than offering older verisons a patch.

Apple effectively told PowerPC users the same thing when they stopped updating Leopard and Safari 5.0...

Wow. That's incredibly stupid. Of course, those two things are exactly the same thing aren't they?!?

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Posted 13 May 2012 - 04:42 PM

Hawaiian717, on 11 May 2012 - 09:29 AM, said:

warlock7, on 11 May 2012 - 08:23 AM, said:

He's the same idiot that tells everybody to upgrade to the latest paid version of Photoshop to avoid a security hole rather than offering older verisons a patch.

Apple effectively told PowerPC users the same thing when they stopped updating Leopard and Safari 5.0...

Yeah, because stopping support for 5-year-old hardware is the same as stopping support for 2-year-old software. Dream on.