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Adobe's attitude towards security is mediocre, possibly irresponsible. They know that Flash is being phased out, so they invest no effort. For 2014--15, they
by abhv 11y ago
Adobe's attitude towards security is mediocre, possibly irresponsible. They know that Flash is being phased out, so they invest no effort. For 2014--15, they relied on Google Project Zero to find and sometimes even fix their security flaws.
- yborg 11y agoI especially enjoy the ad for "another Adobe product I might enjoy" that they serve up at the end of the standard install process if you don't autoinstall. "Oh yes please, may I have another?"
- melling 11y ago"Thoughts on Flash" is almost 6 years old. http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/ http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/ Adobe is a business. They need to move on too. When companies like Microsoft or Adobe, for example, let users hang on for too long to legacy software, it hurts everyone.
- esnard 11y agoIt's not an easy process to stop maintaining softwares for such large companies. Flash is still widely used, and so many websites still rely on it that it will take a lot of time to fully abandon it, so Adobe will still have to fix all security issues for years.
- icebraining 11y agoNobody is asking them to build new features, just fix security issues. And Flash is still a supported platform by their designing tools like Animate.
- Ajedi32 11y agoAdobe Animate isn't a new tool, fyi. It used to be called "Adobe Flash Professional". They renamed it in order to distance it from Flash.