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> As for flash having more bugs than IE, add some links for reference, I would love to read up on that. Then I would recommend starting with Secunia's Advisory

> As for flash having more bugs than IE, add some links for reference, I would love to read up on that. Then I would recommend starting with Secunia's Advisory and Vulnerability Database and NIST's National Vulnerability Database. Both list hundreds of vulnerabilities, nearly all of which are severe or critical; several of which interact with IE specifically; and most of which affect all platforms, including Android, Linux, and OS X. Although IE has about 5 times as many vulnerabilities listed (3x in Secunia and ~5x in NIST's NVD), I think the point remains: Flash is one of the largest security threats on the Internet, especially considering its spread and profile. Additionally, Flash still suffers from thousands of bugs, some of which have never been fixed (like "smurf video" on Linux). And that's just on their public (https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/ https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/) bug database.

novalis 14y ago
You recommend me looking at a source that states it doesn't have more bugs than IE. Look, the article on techcrunch is troll bait and the agenda is meme based already, the article title brings to ponderation on the amount of self satisfaction a corpse would feel because a company pulled a virtual machine from running on mobile browsers, limiting it to export to executable apps that are doing well by any measure. I don't see a valid way to continue this other than pointing back to what I posted. I would say cross scripting is the largest security problem nowdays by any measurable account. These are your parameters looking at spread and profile, javascript tops flash in both, so let us not make it sound like flash is the end all of security problems on the web. You don't "like" it, perfectly fine, no big deal, I reckon you probably interact with it on a lot of plats nowdays without even knowing. Bandwagon opinions aside, it is that simple.

novalis 14y ago

You recommend me looking at a source that states it doesn't have more bugs than IE. Look, the article on techcrunch is troll bait and the agenda is meme based already, the article title brings to ponderation on the amount of self satisfaction a corpse would feel because a company pulled a virtual machine from running on mobile browsers, limiting it to export to executable apps that are doing well by any measure. I don't see a valid way to continue this other than pointing back to what I posted. I would say cross scripting is the largest security problem nowdays by any measurable account. These are your parameters looking at spread and profile, javascript tops flash in both, so let us not make it sound like flash is the end all of security problems on the web. You don't "like" it, perfectly fine, no big deal, I reckon you probably interact with it on a lot of plats nowdays without even knowing. Bandwagon opinions aside, it is that simple.