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It was really bad when the best way to play a video on a website was through the god damn adobe flash plugin - isn't it crazy thinking back on how that was just
by jamal-kumar 4y ago
It was really bad when the best way to play a video on a website was through the god damn adobe flash plugin - isn't it crazy thinking back on how that was just normal for so long? [1] [2]
People lament the loss of all those flash games and stuff but some of those sites were SKETCHY, not to mention ad networks with unchecked .swf "creatives"...
[1] http://phrack.org/issues/69/8.html#article http://phrack.org/issues/69/8.html#article
[2] http://phrack.org/issues/69/13.html http://phrack.org/issues/69/13.html
- chatmasta 4y agoOh yeah, I remember the "flash super cookie" being a well-known marketing technique. You know what's really crazy? Before the Snowden revelations in 2013, something like 70% of the web was using http:// http:// (including sites like Amazon and Facebook, IIRC - although checkout pages may have been secured). LetsEncrypt really did a great job of getting the Web past the starting line of basic security.
- jamal-kumar 4y agoOh yeah arp spoofing or just session hijacking your way into people's accounts was way too facile back then. I seem to recall a browser plugin that did it [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firesheep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firesheep
- nibbleshifter 4y agoFiresheep proliferated quite rapidly at my uni, even to extremely non technical people due to its sheer ease of use and the potential for comedy. The worst people would usually do is leave a vaguely embarrassing status on your FB page, which was the usual prank if you left your computer unlocked anyway.