About five years ago, Steve Jobs called for the death of Adobe Flash. At the time I was leaning towards the Adobe side of the argument despite the fact that Flash was a CPU and energy hog. But as Flash became horrifically insecure, and that was before the whole Hacking Team horror show, I’ve changed my mind. Now Facebook’s Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos has decided to pick up the torch left by Steve Jobs and he’s calling for the death of Flash. Here’s what he Tweeted:
https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/620306643360706561
This was followed up by a number of Tweets, including this one:
https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/620306791520309248
And this one:
https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/620308114990968832
I agree with everything that he posted. HTML5 can replace Flash. We just need to set a date to kill Flash off once and for all and computer users everywhere would not only be safer, but they would get better performing computers as a result. Now would Adobe ever kill Flash? Anything is possible, but they have proven to be stubborn about it. Thus only public pressure or more likely Flash falling out of favor with developers and the general public would get Adobe to kill it. Until that happens, expect more and more exploits and lots of patching of Flash to continue.
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Facebook Exec Channels His Inner Steve Jobs To Call For The Death Of Flash
About five years ago, Steve Jobs called for the death of Adobe Flash. At the time I was leaning towards the Adobe side of the argument despite the fact that Flash was a CPU and energy hog. But as Flash became horrifically insecure, and that was before the whole Hacking Team horror show, I’ve changed my mind. Now Facebook’s Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos has decided to pick up the torch left by Steve Jobs and he’s calling for the death of Flash. Here’s what he Tweeted:
https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/620306643360706561
This was followed up by a number of Tweets, including this one:
https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/620306791520309248
And this one:
https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/620308114990968832
I agree with everything that he posted. HTML5 can replace Flash. We just need to set a date to kill Flash off once and for all and computer users everywhere would not only be safer, but they would get better performing computers as a result. Now would Adobe ever kill Flash? Anything is possible, but they have proven to be stubborn about it. Thus only public pressure or more likely Flash falling out of favor with developers and the general public would get Adobe to kill it. Until that happens, expect more and more exploits and lots of patching of Flash to continue.
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