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My teachers are also using Flash-enabled sites for their quiz and presentation :( This is simply because the site owners haven't moved on yet for some unknown

• vmception 6y ago
  > for some unknown reasons ka-ching educational and government contracts need disruption and this is a symptom
  • egypturnash 6y ago
    Where "disruption" means "waste a bunch of time and money for people to rebuild something that worked perfectly fine until the entire platform it was built on went belly-up"? I mean, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, especially if your budget is next to nonexistent.
    • trthomps 6y ago
      Maybe building on proprietary platforms was a bad idea from the start and a poor investment of public resources.
      • Laforet 6y ago
        Back in the early 2000s there were no equivalent to flash in terms of features and ease of use. It's bordering on whig history criticising people back then for not going FOSS
    • dumpsterdiver 6y ago
      > I mean, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, especially if your budget is next to nonexistent. Oh, it was broken alright. From a security perspective, Flash was a nightmare to the extent that you almost had to wonder if Adobe was making it vulnerable on purpose. By using Flash today, organizations are putting themselves and their users at serious risk. Ransomware, identity theft, all of the bad things. School children would be an easy target for hackers to gain access to the parents computer, so it's especially appalling that learning software is still using Flash. https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-53/product_id-6761/Adobe-Flash-Player.html https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-53/p...