Do you want to keep your Mac secure? The best advice one of the world’s most famous hackers “security researchers” has to offer is that you shouldn’t use Adobe’s crash prone, resource gobbling multimedia plugin — it’s just that simple.
An Adobe employee commented on a Mac Blorge article about the Dempsky (JIRPA FP-677, a.k.a CVE-2008-4546) Flash Player bug, saying that the issue had been remedied. Although there’s a patch out there, it seems that few know about it and that fewer still have installed it.
If your experiences on the Mac are anything to go by, then mobile Flash is at best a questionable option. Further, there are a raft of touch-specific issues that need to be resolved, as well (here we go ’round again).
The ongoing shooting war between Apple and Adobe takes a decidedly Flash favorable turn with a Gawker rewrite of the Apple CEO’s visit to the Wall Street Journal, delivering a canard (and correction) laden take on recent events in New York.
The last thing the graphic software giant needed right now was even the insinuation that the company was standing in the way of the HTML5 standard, which many view as a competitor and even a replacement for piczilla’s Flash. Now, they’ve got more than that, though it’s not entirely clear what the publicly available information is really telling us.
Veritable barrages of words have flown both ways in the battle of opinions between Adobe and Apple regarding Flash, whether or not iPhone users need it and whether or not Apple will allow it.
Is that the heady scent of unicorn tears or is it that my dreams are really coming to true? Here’s hoping Hulu really is putting together a Web site that doesn’t rely on Adobe’s buggy, endlessly crashing Flash plugin.
Apple’s exclusion of Flash from its iPhone and, now iPad has led to firestorm of debate over the stability and security of Adobe’s multimedia authoring and display software. Many Mac users have come out against Flash, saying that the Cupertino, California-based company has been right all along to exclude it.
Adobe is not taking Steve Jobs’ complaints about about their Flash product lying down, and has issued a number of statements trying to clarify their position in the latest Adobe-Apple war of words.
An already interesting weekend just got a little, well, more interesting. There is, of course, no way to confirm anything in this write up, which is presented as hearsay. Still, in view of the simmering competition between Google and Apple, as well as the shooting war with Adobe, this information almost passes a sniff test.
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