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You're right to some extent but it's worth noting that Flash wasn't killed on a whim. It was the no. 1 vector for catching malware by browsing internet -- for o
by jakub_g 5y ago
You're right to some extent but it's worth noting that Flash wasn't killed on a whim. It was the no. 1 vector for catching malware by browsing internet -- for over a decade, and at some point it became clear that trying to keep it patched is hopeless long-term because zero-day bugs kept coming. It was like nicely looking box that emits radioactive waste.
- hulitu 5y agoJavascript was the nr 1 vector for malware but everybody seems to be happy to run it.
- Jasper_ 5y agoI mean, that's just a side effect of being popular. In the 2000s, Windows was the no. 1 vector, which Apple kept riding the coattails of with their "no viruses" slogan until macOS became popular enough to be targetable and they had to eat crow. Right now, if you give me a random device, chances are the way I'll jailbreak it is through the random fork of WebKit installed on it. Everything with mass distribution eventually becomes the vector.