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Fair enough. You have to be careful taking this argument too far, though, or you end up saying something like no other browser besides IE should be developed, b
by richardjs 13y ago
Fair enough. You have to be careful taking this argument too far, though, or you end up saying something like no other browser besides IE should be developed, because it increases the attack surface.
Ultimately, individual users have to take charge of their own individual attack surface. If switching from one Flash player to another increases their personal security, it's a good thing.
- Tloewald 13y agoFair point. Any argument taken to extremes is probably a bad thing. In general, I'd say replacing things with emulations of things is not a good way to get better reliability, performance, or security -- now you have bugs in the original thing and the emulation of the thing to consider. In this case, the emulation lives within a restricted runtime environment and the real thing doesn't. But that's a performance / resource consumption / convenience / compatibility hit in exchange for "security", and those tend to fail simply because most people like their performance / resource consumption / convenience / compatibility.