Adobe Flash Vulnerability CVE-2015-7663 and Mitigating Exploits

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38 points·DiabloD3··7 comments

Blogging pro tip: I’ve you’re posting an article about a vulnerability and your first sentence starts with “Today”, display a publication date.

blogging pro tip: if your blog doesn't include a publication date (which includes year, month, and day, in iso standard format of 20YY-MM-DD, or an unambiguous format like 12 Nov[ember] YYYY or Nov[ember] 12 yyyy) on every post, you're doing it wrong.

Mitigation: use Chrome? None of the recent Flash exploits were able to break out of the sandbox, at least not on Linux.

Flash still exists? My small world of unix (with a lean Firefox) and Android have spoiled me.

There are millions of people a day that play Flash games across many websites. Many of the members on HN have a flawed view that just because they don't use flash then no one else does.

Different view = flawed?

Though, I guess you were right. My comment was unhelpful and meant to be tongue-in-cheek. My mistake. Downvotes welcomed.

Edit: As much as I liked Strongbad and JoeCartoon, flash still sucks.

Flawed was probably the wrong word to use, maybe unrealistic view would have been more appropriate. As a developer in the Flash gaming community, one of my pet peeves is the loud outcry from the tech community to kill Flash. Flash is still the best way to ship cross-platform games that can be played from any browser, and there is a huge community of interest in that.

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